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This section considers development needs arising outside South Warwickshire. National policy requires councils to cooperate with neighbours on needs that cannot be met locally. There is no housing shortfall from the Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area, and a shortfall from the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull area has not been confirmed. The plan overprovides employment land against local need, which could help meet unmet needs from Coventry. Future cross-boundary needs will be explored through the West Midlands Spatial Development Strategy.
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2.4 Needs Arising from Outside South Warwickshire
2.4.1 The NPPF requires local planning authorities to engage and co-operate positively
and proactively with their neighbours to address cross boundary planning issues
including development needs that cannot reasonably be met within those authority
areas. The co-operative approach undertaken in preparing the SWLP is set out in
the Maintaining Effective Co-operation Compliance Statement. South Warwickshire is
within the wider Coventry and Warwickshire Housing Market Area (HMA) and partly
within the Greater Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull HMA.
2.4.2 There is no shortfall of housing arising from the Coventry and Warwickshire HMA.
A housing shortall from the Birmingham, Black Country and Solihull HMA has not been
confirmed and nor has it been confirmed that any such shortfall should appropriately
be met within South Warwickshire as opposed to other areas of the HMA, better related
to the likely origin of the need.
2.4.3 The situation regarding employment needs from the Greater Birmingham and
Black Country HMA is similar, albeit that the SWLP is providing for strategic employment
that meets sub-regional needs. In respect of Coventry and Warwickshire, as set out
below, the SWLP is overproviding on employment land relative to the non-strategic
employment need identified for South Warwickshire. This overprovision of employment
land in the SWLP and this additional headroom could therefore contribute towards any
unmet employment needs arising from Coventry. With the introduction of Spatial
Development Strategies, it will be for the West Midlands SDS to explore how needs can
be met within its plan area in