Proposed Submission Draft Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal

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Representation ID: 13635

Received: 04/05/2025

Respondent: David Wilson Homes East Midlands

Agent: Marrons

There is a clear and compelling case to test a higher housing requirement not only because of recent housing delivery trends mentioned above, but because of the wider issue of an HMA-wide shortfall over the plan period beyond 2036. A higher growth figure could provide sufficient headroom to respond to this longer-term strategic challenge and this has not been addressed
given that alternative scales of growth were not tested beyond the initial spatial options.
Given these considerations, we would suggest that the overall quantity of growth subject to further testing through the SA process.