No

Representation ID: 27330

Received: 25/01/2019

Respondent: Home Builders Federation Ltd

Although we are supportive of Housing being included within Strategic Objective 2 we are particularly concerned about the suggestion that 'There is a need to ensure that the growth level applied in the RLDP takes into account the capacity of the home building industry to deliver'. This suggests that the only reason the previous plan has not delivered at the rate expected is because of developer capacity which is clearly not the case and has not be evidenced in the plans supporting documents.
We consider that Housing is cross-cutting and sits across a number of the other Objectives.

Noted. The housing growth level is informed by a number of issues such as population projections, employment growth projections, amount of affordable housing needed as well as looking at past completion rates and the capacity of house building sector.