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Object
Ipswich Borough Council Local Plan Core Strategy and Policies Development Plan Document Review - Final Draft
Representation ID: 26442
Received: 02/03/2020
Respondent: Kesgrave Covenant Ltd
Agent: Kesgrave Covenant Ltd
Legally compliant? Not specified
Sound? No
Duty to co-operate? Not specified
Plan identifies requirement for sites to provide 15% affordable housing, with the exception of Humber Doucy Lane and IGS where 30/31% required respectively. Calculations for Humber Doucy Lane from assessment of affordable housing provision in The Whole Plan Viability Study, don't include section 106/CIL - query whether full infrastructure costs considered. After testing, first IGS neighbourhoods have been agreed with 4/5% provision instead. Therefore, suggest further flexibility applied to this policy. Whilst support provision of affordable housing, more detailed viability testing may be required to ensure site is viable with regard to all infrastructure costs. Recommend amendment to paragraph 8.29.
Paragraph 8.29 should be amended to read:
"The Council will outline expected infrastructure provision of both green infrastructure and built infrastructure required as part of the joint agreed master-planning process to the cross-border Humber Doucy Lane sites. the Whole Plan Viability Assessment of the Local Plan identifies that this area of land falls wihtin a high value zone and indicates that approximately 30% affordable housing could be achieved on a greenfield development, however this will be subject to further testing at the planning application stage. The level of affordable housing also broadly aligns with the Suffolk Coastal Local Plan affordable housing requirement of 33%"