Issue - meetings

Members’ attention was drawn to the size of the provisional housing allocation figures for Redditch under the Regional Spatial Strategy options. Due to concerns about the lack of a sound rationale and robust evidence for the figures, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Worcestershire County Councils had jointly commissioned a study to carry out an independent assessment of the figures, to consider and evaluate the implications of the options for the areas surrounding Redditch and to identify broad directions for residential growth. It had been hoped that a draft report would have been available for consideration at the meeting but it had been delayed. It would therefore be brought forward to the Working Party in due course.