Purpose

To consider Wokingham Borough Council’s
response to Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan 2024-2042 Draft
Spatial Strategy Regulation 18 Consultation (November 2025), to
ensure any negative impacts upon Wokingham Borough are minimised
and that any benefits are maximised.

Content

The Executive Member for Housing, Partnerships
and the Local Plan agrees that Wokingham Borough Council submits
representations confirming the following as this council’s
response to the Basingstoke and Deane Local Plan 2024-2042 Draft
Spatial Strategy Regulation 18 Consultation (November 2025):
1. Support the use of the national standard
method to calculate housing need and its use as the basis for
setting the housing requirement.
2. Support the intention to meet housing need,
as calculated by the national standard method, in full.
3. Support the Detailed Emergency Planning
Zone being a location where growth is not planned.
4. Support the intention to meet the needs of
the Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople communities in
full. Further engagement is sought.
5. Support the intention to meet employment
needs in full.
6. Request further engagement on transport and
highways to ensure that potential impacts on the network arising
from the proposed growth are appropriately considered and mitigated
to an acceptable degree and that opportunities to promote
sustainable travel are secured.