Regulation 19 - Proposed Draft Local Plan Submission

Object

Representation ID: 13750

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

As drafted it fails to adequately meet the District’s market and affordable housing needs arising from the December 2024 update to its Local Housing Need figure and neither does it contain sufficient contingency to deal with the proportion of Leicester City’s post 2036 unmet need that may need to be accommodated within Harborough District.
Jelson is of the view that the proportion of growth directed to the Large and Medium Villages should be increased

Object

Representation ID: 13751

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Omisson site:
Cottage Lane, Broughton Astley is available now and on the basis that they are controlled by Jelson, residential
development would be suitable and achievable. Its allocation would in Jelson’s view (i) align fully
with the Plan’s stated spatial distribution strategy; (ii) help the Authority to satisfy its overall housing
requirement; (iii) boost the Council’s 5 year housing land supply position, given they are deliverable
immediately; and, (iv) provide further choice and contingency in the event that the proposed housing
allocation in Broughton Astley does not come forward as quickly as expected and / or its doesn’t
deliver housing as the rate it is expected to.
Between them the sites at Cottage Lane, Broughton Astley and Leicester Lane, Great Bowden would be capable of accommodating something in the order of 275 – 350 dwellings.

Object

Representation ID: 13752

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Omission site: Leicester Lane Great Bowden

This site is available now and on the basis that they are controlled by Jelson, residential
development would be suitable and achievable. Their allocation would in Jelson’s view (i) align fully
with the Plan’s stated spatial distribution strategy; (ii) help the Authority to satisfy its overall housing
requirement; (iii) boost the Council’s 5 year housing land supply position, given they are deliverable
immediately; and, (iv) provide further choice and contingency in the event that there are technical impediments to the development of the allocated sites in Great Bowden, which prevent them from coming forward for development, or reduce their capacity to accommodate the number of homes they are allocated for.

Between them the sites at Cottage Lane, Broughton Astley and Leicester Lane, Great Bowden would be capable of accommodating something in the order of 275 – 350 dwellings.

Support

Representation ID: 13753

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Jelson welcomes the Council’s proposed allocation of its site off Leicester Road in Market Harborough for development in the Plan.

MH1 is visually and for the most part functionally independent of the remainder of the land allocated in SA03. It is therefore severable from the remainder of the allocated land. Policy needs to be drafted to allow and enable delivery of this site ahead of the remainder of the site, enabling early delivery.

Consider joint masterplanning not necessary and provides reasons for this.

Transport assessment- Jelson prepare own TA for site. If joint modelling required Jelson would pay proporitionate amount.

Object

Representation ID: 13755

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Criteria 2(c) of Policy SA03 Jelson is keen to understand whether LCC has undertaken the necessary analysis to confirm that this. Clearly the Jelson site is not a suitable location for the school and this being the case the need to accommodate a school within a wider masterplan ought not delay the progression of the Jelson site. Jelson is of course prepared to make proportionate contributions

Criteria 2(d) masterplanning of the site will need to
factor in the provision of a replacement showground. Jelson would welcome clarity on whether a new
showground is a community requirement or a commercial decision?

Object

Representation ID: 13756

Received: 06/05/2025

Respondent: Jelson Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? Not specified

Duty to co-operate? Not specified

Insofar as the provisions of Policy MH1 are concerned, Jelson fully supports and is committed to the
delivery of the MH1 site and is confident that the site could be delivered in full relatively quickly.
However, as currently drafted the policy threatens to add significant delay to delivery by unnecessarily
entwining element of its development with the wider proposed allocation. We would therefore seek
amendments to the policy providing flexibility to enable site MH1 to be delivered early, whilst
continuing to recognise the contribution it might need to make to wider infrastructure needs in the
area.