Comment

Representation ID: 168468

Received: 14/10/2019

Respondent: Pigeon Land Ltd

Agent: Savills

For strategic sites, the evidence of lead-in times has not been used for the projected lead-in times on the largest new sites included in the housing trajectory.

The projected timescales are based on assumptions made by the Councils and applicants. With such assumptions, there is often an in-built sub-conscious optimism bias that leads to optimistic assumptions that are then not realised - in short, it ends up taking longer than anticipated.

The time taken from the submission of an application to the commencement of construction of the first dwelling cannot be the same as the time taken to the completion of that dwelling.

We are similarly concerned that the evidence used to arrive at some of the proposed typical lead-in times for non-strategic sites is somewhat limited.