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The legal background Who needs homes? Forest Heath has a core strategy which sits at the heart of the district’s Local Plan (formerly called the Local Development Framework). The core strategy is a We do – right now. legally-adopted document which sets out policies guiding the overall scale, type and location of new development along with broad locations for housing and • The toddlers of today may want to have a home where they grew up and near their employment land. The aim is to balance competing demands so we make the best families. use of available land. You can read the core strategy on the website: www.forest- • The grandparents of today may want smaller homes where they can lead independent heath.gov.uk/yourhomes lives for longer. • People moving here, perhaps for the high-tech jobs coming out of Cambridge, may Following a successful High Court challenge we are taking another look at how many houses want to live near their work. we need in the district, what numbers should be built in the areas already identified in the • People who are single, or partners who don’t have children may want smaller homes. core strategy and over what time period they should be built.

We need your views to help us make the best decisions for our future generations. To Norwich BRANDON

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MILDENHALL Public consultation closes on A1101 25 September. Your responses will A11 help us to form the next stage of RED LODGE the process – the Core Strategy Single Issue Review Submission To Ely and North Document in December 2012. A11

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To Cambridge, Midlands and London We look forward to your views on Join the future numbers, places, homes conversation times Forest Heath District Council welcomes your help to decide how many new homes we need in the future, where they should go and over what period they should be built. This leaflet gives you some background information.P lease complete the online Numbers questionnaire (which gives more detail) on www.forest-heath.gov.uk/yourhomes or The original number of homes, based on research by the former contact the address on the back page for a paper copy which you can post. Development Agency, said we would need 10,100 new homes by 2031.

We now have the opportunity to take another look and identify a new number BUT (and it’s a big BUT) any new figure MUST be based on evidence, not simply random Time wishes, ideas or guesses. We owe it to our future generations not to leave them in a As well as numbers and places, we need to position where they have to move away from the district because there aren’t enough consider over what timescale any new homes homes for them in the places where they would like to live. should be built. We are looking at housing over the next 19 years. The market will decide Forest Heath’s planners have estimated the numbers of homes needed depending on to an extent – if developers can’t sell houses which evidence you look at. they won’t build them. But we don’t want to 25,400 (Census 2011) This is the number of homes in use we overwhelm communities by allowing too many have in the district today too quickly.

26,400. This is the number of homes we have if we include all the empty properties

28,800. This is the number of homes we will need if we keep up with the amount of children we are having. To Norwich BRANDON 32,740. This is the number of homes we will have in 2031 if we carry on building at the same rate as we are now.

33,900. This is the number of homes we will need by 2031 for those THETFORD we expect will want to move to the district for jobs or other reasons.

38,100. This is the number of homes we will need BECK ROW A1065 by 2031 if we are to have a home for everyone who wants one, including those on the housing needs register. A11 WEST ROW

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