ii. about 1,500 dwellings in a strategic development area on land east of Lutterworth

The addition for Magna Park is based, as far as we can tell on an assessment of housing need specifically for that site and amounts to 500 homes over the 20 year plan period. The intention is these will be close to Magna Park. The nearest settlement (in Leicestershire) is Lutterworth and the plan includes 1500 houses in Lutterworth, three times that required for Magna Park. In other words, we can see no clear reason to believe that the Magna Park requirement cannot be met within the existing provision (or even a lower provision at Lutterworth). Since the overall OAN for Harborough is considerably higher than the predicted economic need one would assume that this matter could be considered as a matter of redistribution of housing need.

Development east of the the M1 can never be integrated into Lutterworth and so would not work.