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2.8.7 Minute 40 vi) of the Council Meeting resolved ‘To agree to the release
of all the Local Plan Phase 2 residential allocations, but with revised
housing numbers consistent with those set out in the Site Allocations
DPD Preferred Options which expressed a need for 282 dwellings on
the Phase 2 site in Sherburn in Elmet.
2.8.8 Since the Council resolution there have been a number of changes in
policy. The Core Strategy has undergone its Examination in Public
where the Inspector raised queries over the total housing number in the
District as well as the distribution in Tadcaster and Sherburn-in-Elmet.
The Council undertook additional research and a full consultation
programme which resulted in a series of amendments to the Core
Strategy. Of particular note is the change from around 500 dwellings at
Sherburn in Elmet to 790. This weakens the Council’s basis on the
SADPD Preferred Options for a limited Phase 2 release as that
document is no longer in conformity with the more up to date Core
Strategy evidence base.
2.8.9 In light of the changes to housing numbers contained in the SADPD on
which the Council resolution on 13 September 2012 was based and
given that this Council resolution does not have the weight of the Selby
District Local Plan, Draft Core Strategy Policies or SADPD significant
weight cannot be attached to the decision taken by Council on 13
September 2011 in terms of a limited release of housing for this Phase
2 site. Further, the decision of the Council was not the subject of any
consultation or sustainability appraisal.
2.8.10 Policy H2A was clear that the allocated Phase 2 sites would be
released after 2006 and only if monitoring showed a potential shortfall
in relation to the then current required annual delivery rate in the
regional spatial strategy. Annual monitoring did show a shortfall in
housing land supply and as such all Phase 2 sites were released and
the basis on which the limited number of housing on the Sherburn site
was released has now been overtaken by amended housing numbers
identified in the amended SADPD following the Examination in Public.
It is therefore the case that, applying the terms of the Local Plan, the
whole of the Phase 2 site is released and the proposals accord with
Policy H2A. The resolution of 13th September 2011 cannot be a
material consideration to which greater weight attaches than the Local
Plan (for the reasons set out above).
2.8.11 The Regional Spatial Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber was
adopted in 2008 and set out a net housing requirement for 440
dwellings per annum and although this is the most appropriate housing
target on which to base current housing figures, this does not
supersede the figures set out and adopted in the Local Plan 2005.
2.8.12 Whilst it is noted that there is an intention to revoke the Regional
Spatial Strategy only moderate weight can be attached to this and as
with the previous application (2011/0893/EIA) there is no conflict with
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