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WC has updated its 2016 land supply fgures.
Some welcome good news for a change.
The Chippenham Site Allocations Plan allocates land for housing and employment uses at Chippenham for the strategic plan period from 2006 - 2026. The hearing sessions for the Plan were suspended in November 2015. One of the reasons for the suspension was due to the Inspector’s concerns regarding the deliverability of the proposed allocations in the plan. As a result the Council removed the proposed allocations from the housing land supply.
The Inspector has now completed the examination of the Plan and issued his report. He has concluded that, subject to modifications, the Plan has passed the tests of soundness set out in the NPPF, and can proceed to adoption.
In the light of the Inspector’s conclusions it is considered that the Chippenham site allocations can now contribute to the housing land supply.
As a result, in accordance with the guidance set out in the PPG, the Council has revised the housing land supply position and updated the 2016 HLSS. Since the original publication in November 2016 a number of minor errors have also been corrected in the updated HLSS. The updated statement can be found on the Council’s website.
For our area the revised housing supply figure is 5.73 years which is above the figure required by the government.
As a result of this the policies of the Core Strategy can be regarded as 'sound' (so far as I can ascertain) and so any speculative planning applications for housing are now on very dodgy ground (excuse the pun).