Part of 2. Questions to the Minister for Housing and Local Government – in the Senedd at 2:52 pm on 14 October 2020.
Well, no, I think that's a slight mischaracterisation of where the policy is. The number of One Planet developments approved each year is very small compared with other forms of housing. So, between 2013 and 2019-20, only 20 One Planet developments have been approved, compared with 251 rural enterprise dwellings over the same period. Last year, only 10 One Planet developments were approved. In Carmarthenshire itself, 13 rural enterprise dwellings were approved while five One Planet developments were approved and six were refused. We get an annual monitoring report to the planning authority to evidence compliance with the management plan by identifying activities carried out during the previous 12 months. At the moment, we haven't asked for that data due to ongoing COVID-19 pandemic relaxations of the rules, but we are going to request the data in April 2021 for a two-year period, and just to emphasise that failure to meet the terms of the management plan could result in enforcement proceedings in respect of breaches of conditions, subject to which the planning permission was granted. So, I'm afraid, no, I don't have any current plans to update the overarching policy of guidance on One Planet developments.