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Representation ID: 7400

Received: 16/11/2017

Respondent: Gladman Developments

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

The Duty to Cooperate statement published alongside the Proposed Submission Plan refers to a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which is being prepared by the Leicester and Leicestershire authorities and is likely to be completed in January 2018. With unmet need having already been identified within the HMA, the distribution of this unmet need will need to be addressed through both the SGP and updated MOU. There are therefore still considerable
uncertainties regarding the distribution of housing growth across the HMA and Harborough District Council may still be required to accommodate a proportion of the identified unmet housing need.
As the Harborough District Plan is being advanced before these issues have been fully resolved, this is considered to be an unsound basis upon which to prepare the Harborough District Local Plan.