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Object

Representation ID: 26703

Received: 09/09/2021

Respondent: Mersea Homes Limited

Legally compliant? Not specified

Sound? No

The Council and/or Aspinal Verdi are unable to explain why the infrastructure costs assumed by Aspinal Verdi for the Ipswich Garden Suburb (£79,000 per acre) bore no relationship whatsoever to the actual infrastructure costs that were agreed as part of the two site specific viability appraisals for Henley Gate and Fonnereau (£420,000 per acre). Where there are detailed appraisals that have been prepared for the actual development site in question, that have been through a due process of peer review and testing, and which are agreed between the developers and the Council, these have to be afforded greater weight than a generic Whole Plan assessment that has not. It is obvious that the four items of infrastructure listed in the Whole Plan Viability Assessment are just generic items applicable to essentially any development, and do not take in to account the full infrastructure costs.