Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan 2025 Online Version and Consultation

Object

Representation ID: 402

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

Other representations are made on the complete failure to address the housing crisis and in part this can be addressed by including E1 T.3 (Kingsland) as a residential allocation. Employment uses are not viable on the site and it is better used to deliver much needed housing.

Object

Representation ID: 403

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

100 words is not sufficient given the fundamental flaws. The Framework sets a requirement to boost housing supply and the SM for Torbay is around 950 dwellings per annum. Planning for only 400 (fewer than the previous Local Plan) does not in any way represent a sound approach to planning, will not address the shortfall and is seeking effectively to pass responsibility for delivering the Government target of 1.5m homes this Parliament to any other authority but Torbay.

The plan needs a fundamental rebasing to meet national requirements.

Object

Representation ID: 404

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

As already noted, SS1 is fundamentally flawed and bears to real world relationship to the need to boost housing delivery. The plan seeks to deliver less housing than the adopted plan and does not even come anywhere close to satisfactorily addressing the SM figures of around 950 per annum.

This is a fundamental flaw and it seems clear that there is no realistic prospect of the plan being found sound in this state.

Object

Representation ID: 406

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

Objections have been made to the over-arching context for this draft Policy. Given the fundamental flaws to be addressed at the over-arching level, all policies that are derived from it (such as SDT1) will need substantial additional work to be found sound.

Object

Representation ID: 407

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

Most of this site (Kingsland has been removed and should be reintroduced) has been allocated in an adopted plan for a considerable period and no residential development has come forward because of clear viability concerns.

The site is controlled by a housebuilder and it is currently being offered for sale and this must be a clear sign that there are very significant viability concerns with one of the largest allocations in Torbay.

Relying on a site to deliver over 300 dwellings when it has already failed to do so over the last decade is flawed.

Object

Representation ID: 408

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

As already noted, the proposed 400 dwellings per annum is in no way related to the standard methodology starting point and will fail to boost housing land supply - indeed the Council is planning to reduce supply from the adopted plan.

This is a fundamental flaw that must be rectified for the plan to be found sound.

Object

Representation ID: 409

Received: 28/01/2026

Respondent: Woodford Group Developments Ltd

Agent: Maypool Estates Ltd

The draft Policy identifies a number of PDL sites that have been longstanding opportunities for many years (over 15 in many cases) and have failed to come forward.

Relying on these sites to meet a majority of a housing target (that is woefully below requirements itself) is flawed and there is no evidence of deliverability - they have not been attractive in strong market conditions and there is very limited prospect now of success.

Added to this, most could be included on the brownfield land register rather than becoming plan allocations purely to boost numbers and avoid greenfield releases elsewhere.