SLP KDBH Extracts - Flipbook - Page 66
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The HEDNA also demonstrated the need to increase the supply of accessible and adaptable
dwellings and wheelchair user dwellings as well as providing specific provision of older
persons housing. The evidence supported a policy requirement that:
All dwellings (in all tenures) meet the M4(2) standards
A need for around 700 dwellings to be for wheelchair users (M4(3)) in the period to
2036, met by a requirement that 5% of new homes are built to M4(3 2a).
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Policy P4E therefore sets a requirement for M4(2) and M4(3) dwellings to be provided on all
major development. Conditions will be applied to relevant planning permissions to ensure
compliance with Policy P4E.
211.
Where application of the 5% requirement for M4(3) results in a fraction of a wheelchair user
dwelling, provision will be rounded to the nearest whole dwelling.
212.
In addition to enabling people to remain in their own homes, there is also a need for policy to
support specialist provision.
213.
Specialist provision can take the form of specialist housing and care homes. P4E will make
provision for housing with care dwellings, which are part of the overall housing need
identified in Policy P5, and additional care bedspaces for elderly people.
214.
Specialist housing will provide fully self-contained homes to people who may need care at
the time that they take up occupation, or may develop a need for care over a period. People
will have tenancies or leases which give them security of tenure and the right to control who
enters their home. Schemes will have communal spaces and facilities, access to personal
care and support 24 hours a day through an agency registered with the Care Quality
Commission, community alarms and other assistive technologies and an office for use by
staff serving the scheme.
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Care Homes will provide individual rooms (‘care bedspaces’) on a licence within a residential
building. They will provide a high level of care meeting all activities of daily living. Personal
care and accommodation will be provided together as a package with no clear separation
between the two. This type of provision includes residential, nursing and dementia care.
Care homes will be Care Quality Commission regulated for the purpose of ‘accommodation
for persons who require nursing or personal care’.
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Specialist housing and care homes must be in accessible locations, consistent with policy
P7.
217.
The Council is also justified in requiring the provision of homes which are designed to meet
specific needs of older and/or disabled people (including people with learning and/or physical
or sensory disabilities) because of the outstanding need for such accommodation and the
relatively high cost of provision.
218.
The population growth among adults aged 18-64 with disabilities is less pronounced than
among older people, but the Council must develop affordable housing as an alternative to
residential care. It is expected that this need will mainly be met by the Council directly
commissioning the required provision.
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Applicants for planning permission should seek pre-application advice to establish whether
their proposal will be classified as use class C2 or C3.
Challenges and Objectives Addressed by the Policy
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B
Meeting housing needs across the Borough, including the Borough’s own needs and,
where possible, assisting with accommodating the HMA wide shortfall.
C
Sustaining the attractiveness of the Borough for people who live, work and invest in
Solihull