天美传媒 has submitted its consultation response. Our principal concerns are:
- The proposals as drafted will significantly reduce the number of new homes being planned for, with significant knock-on economic and socio-economic impacts;
- Of over 50 new policy provisions only three (support for community-led housing groups; support for the supply of specialist older people鈥檚 housing; and encouragement for upward extensions by way of mansard roofs) could be said to be in any way positive towards new development;
- The reduction will be exacerbated because where LPAs do plan for less it will become more difficult for unmet need to be met elsewhere;
- The crisis in local plan-making is set to continue and when plans do progress, they will have a lower bar to get over in order to be found sound; and
- The Government is set to respond to the consultation in 鈥楽pring 2023鈥�, adopting the NPPF revisions as part of this exercise, which suggests that these significant changes will not be properly considered.
