Transcript Document

PLANNING FOR HOUSING:
GETTING THE EVIDENCE RIGHT
Rob Jarman
Head of Planning & Development
Maidstone Borough Council
3 key questions…
• Government aims to boost significantly the supply of
housing land. To do this we need to know…
• Q:What is the demand for housing in our area?
• A:Strategic Housing Market Assessment
• Q: What is the total potential supply of housing in our
area?
• A: Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
• Q: What is the pipeline supply of housing in our area
• A: housing trajectory & 5 year supply calculation
Strategic Housing Market Assessments
• Assesses the overall demand for market &
affordable housing in an area over the Local Plan
timeframe
• NPPF: ‘objectively assessed need’. Step change
from ‘re-distributive’ Structure/Regional Plans.
• Based on housing market areas. Benefits of joint
commissioning.
• Technical piece of evidence requiring specialist
demographic and market expertise
Strategic Housing Market Assessments #2
• Starting point is ONS/CLG population and
household projections
• Test key components of the data – migration
patterns; household formation rates; vacancy
rates
• Also benchmark against an economic-led
scenario. Will there be the labour force that the
economy needs?
• SHMA can also reveal affordable housing needs
and care/nursing home needs (C2).
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
• To identify candidate housing sites which are
suitable, available and viable ‘to meet the
identified need for housing over the plan period’
(NPPF para 159)
• Call for Sites – landowners (incl. public sector),
developers, agents. Also proactive approaches to
owners of brownfield sites.
• Combine with employment/G&T sites
assessments
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment #2
• Site assessments. Make use of statutory
consultees and DM expertise
• Consider constraints, scope for mitigation and
suitable development densities
• Output is a schedule of suitable sites
5 year housing land supply
• Need to be able to demonstrate a 5 year supply
of deliverable housing sites (with pp)
• Without it ‘relevant policies for the supply of
housing should not be considered up to date’
(NPPF paragraph 49)
• Requirement calculation is based on the housing
target in the Local Plan (may not be the same as
OAN) plus 5/20% buffer
Housing Trajectory
• Is the programme for housing delivery for the
whole of the Local Plan period
• Includes completions, houses with planning
permission, sites allocated in the Local Plan and,
for the later years, broad locations where housing
will be delivered
• Can also include a windfall allowance on
unidentified sites for years 6+