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Homes excluded from review MAJOR Pagham housing schemes in Pagham will be left out of a review of a land use blueprint. Arun District Council is set to take a fresh look at its local plan which allocates sites for development. But the four locations in Pagham- where some 1,200 dwellings are expected to be built - will be excluded, along with 2,000-plus homes in Barnham. Arun's planning policy sub-committee agreed an update of the development
management policies in the local plan should start and be followed by an update of the complete plan. Its recommendations to all council members next month, however, stopped short of wiping out its allocation of largescale housing developments. Cllr David Huntley (I, Pagham) told Tuesday's sub-committee meeting the decision went against the motion of no confidence in the local plan which was
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agreed by councillors in November. "That was decided on the grounds it's building large quantities of houses on a coastal plain which could flood in the next 50-100 years. We seem to be ignoring all of that. The problem is the housing figures are too high. Perhaps we ought to get that target alleviated. "We are ignoring the problem of climate change and the juggernaut of building on the coastline is trying to progress," he said.
Arun's current local plan covers the years 2011-2031 and requires 1,000 dwellings a year to be built on average in line with a government target. But the past two years have seen 704 and 603 constructed. Mr Neil Crowther, Arun's group head of planning, said planning law meant the council had to review its plan because so few homes had been built. Doing nothing would risk the government Turn to page 2
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