West Haddon residents are right to be angry about the Planning Inspectorates recent ruling to allow up to 100 homes to be built on land East of their village. Like them, I am cross, as I thought the whole point of the Joint core Strategy Local Plan (approved after years of work and public consultation just days before this appeal was allowed) was to show that Daventry District Council (alongside Northampton Borough and South Northants District) had a housing supply that was sustainable for until 2029. The Planning Inspector who allowed this appeal decided that this is not the case. I think this fundamentally undermines localism - a key government policy and so I immediately wrote to the Planning Inspectorate. Their reply is in this post. To me, this reply raises more questions. For example, the Planning Inspectorate say Daventry District only has a landbank of 4.68 years. Table 4, in part 5 of the adopted Joint Core Strategy local plan shows that Daventry has plans for proposed housing delivery agreed until 2029. Im now going to take this to the Ministers in charge of this policy. Although they wont be able to change this decision, I think they need to ensure that the Planning Inspectorate are not inadvertently undermining government policy in areas where a local plan has been approved.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:24:28 +0000
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