The clock is ticking
Time is running out for residents of Preston, Chorley and South Ribble to have their say over dozens of sites which could be earmarked for new housing.
However, the trio of authorities say that they wanted to gather the “early views” of residents about an embryonic policy which could ultimately have a significant impact on where they live. Meanwhile, the area-wide local plan will also reset a longstanding arrangement between Preston, Chorley and South Ribble over the volume of new housing that should be built in each part of the Central Lancashire patch.
The emerging Central Lancashire Local Plan calculates that the sub-region will have a combined minimum new housing need of 1,334 homes per year in the 15 years up to 2038. It proposes a distribution that would weight development during the first four years of the local plan period – 2023-27 – towards Preston, which would build 600 properties annually, with South Ribble creating 400 and the smallest share initially going to Chorley, at 334.
It adds: “Failing to grow is likely to mean younger residents being forced to leave the area to find an affordable home and the area becoming less inclusive and economically competitive.” Work on the Central Lancashire Local Plan began over four years ago – and it is still another 18 months away from being completed and two-and-a-half years away from being adopted.
Out of the three Central Lancashire authorities, only Preston unanimously approved that process when it launched just before Christmas. However, Tory opposition member Martin Boardman said that areas like his – Croston, Mawdesley and Euxton South – where new housing was being proposed, did not meet the ambition for “sustainable development”.
Conservative opposition group leader Alan Cullens warned that the council would rue the use of the phrase “preferred options” as it could be later used by housebuilders as a “developers’ charger” – but the meeting heard that it was a government-imposed term. Tory group leader Karen Walton also questioned the basis on which South Ribble should accept a higher number of new homes than the government’s standard method of calculation would require – over 2,000 more, she claimed.
The interwoven nature of the planning arrangements in Central Lancashire has also meant that appeal decisions in one part of the patch have had a knock-on effect in others – often leading to sudden changes in the number of dwellings each authority was required to deliver.
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