Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
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East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 Annual Monitoring Report Annex 1 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment November 2011 1 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 Contents 1. Introduction 3 2. The role of the SHLAA 3-4 3. Background and approach 4 4. Methodology 4 5. Study findings 5-17 6. Monitoring and review 18 7. Conclusions drawn from the SHLAA process 18 8. Appendices 19-50 Appendix 1 - Methodology 20-26 Appendix 2 - Schedule of large housing sites 27-35 Appendix 3 - Sites in the settlement policy boundary 36-37 Appendix 4 - Housing trajectory 38-41 Appendix 5 - Five year housing supply 42-47 Appendix 6 – Greenfield SHLAA sites 48-50 2 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 East Hampshire Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment 2011. 1. Introduction National planning policy (PPS3) states that all Local Planning Authorities should undertake a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). The SHLAA is seen by Government as a key tool in the development of local housing policy, and in demonstrating a 5 year supply of deliverable housing sites. The SHLAA has the following objectives: • To inform the Council’s strategy for the provision of housing to meet the housing target for the district through its Core Strategy Development Plan Document. • To identify potential sites for new housing development and assess their suitability, availability and deliverability. • To inform the subsequent allocation of sites for housing in the Local Development Framework. • To inform the plan, monitor and manage the approach for the provision of housing land and the Council’s assessment of a five year supply of deliverable sites as required by PPS3. The SHLAA forms part of the background evidence for the Local Development Framework (LDF). It identifies potential housing sites within the district which can be used through the Core Strategy and the Site Allocations Development Plan Documents (DPD) to fulfil housing targets. This is the third SHLAA to be carried out by East Hampshire District Council. 2. The role of the SHLAA The SHLAA contributes towards the evidence base of the LDF. Policy decisions will be made in the appropriate DPD, not in the SHLAA. In addition, the SHLAA does not make any formal planning decisions and therefore cannot be used for development control purposes. The identification of potential housing sites, buildings or areas in the SHLAA does not state or imply that the District Council would necessarily grant planning permission for residential development. Nor does identification in the SHLAA automatically qualify the site for allocation through the Site Allocations DPD for residential or any other type of development. 3 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 Planning applications will continue to be treated on their own merits at the time of the planning application and not on the information contained in the SHLAA. The SHLAA does not prevent planning applications being submitted on any sites identified in or excluded from the report at any time. The supply of SHLAA sites will show the choices available to meet the need and demand for housing within the district. This will provide a basis for future decision making which determines the location of housing within the district. Overall, sites identified in this report and its appendices have no additional planning status and inclusion in the SHLAA does not imply a presumption of planning approval for residential development on any site. 3. Background and approach The need to conduct a SHLAA was first stated in PPS3 (November 2006). Detailed guidance has been published by the Department for Communities and Local Government, in the form of ‘Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments, Practice Guidance 2007’. This guidance sets out the process which East Hampshire District Council has followed in the preparation of the SHLAA. The SHLAA is a systematic study of land in the District which is likely to be available for housing development in the period up to 2028. The guidance highlights the importance of partnership working. This approach involves working with key stakeholders such as developers, landowners, town and parish councils, and other agencies. These stakeholders can provide expertise on the deliverability of sites, as well as advice on issues of site suitability. The 2011 SHLAA had a cut off point of 31 March 2011 for receipt of sites. Sites received after that date will be included in the 2012 SHLAA. 4. Methodology The methods used in East Hampshire District Council’s SHLAA are based on the guidance: Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments, Practice Guidance July 2007, published by DCLG, with some minor alterations to reflect local circumstances. The diagram and text in Appendix 1 sets out the detailed stages in the process. 4 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 5. Study Findings District Housing Requirement Figures The housing requirement figures for East Hampshire District Council are based on the ‘Option 1’ figures submitted to SEERA of 5200 dwellings for the total 20 year period between 2006 and 2026, an average of 260 per annum. In East Hampshire the Option 1 targets are the same as the South East Plan housing targets. The housing requirements are based on two areas. Firstly, the Central Hampshire part of East Hampshire District, which is made up of the South Downs National Park and the area to the ‘north of the South Downs National Park’ and forms part of the Rest of Hampshire in the South East Plan. Secondly, the South Hampshire part of East Hampshire District, which is made up of the three ‘Southern Parishes’ and forms part of the South Hampshire Sub-region in the South East Plan. This area is also referred to as the ‘PUSH’ area (Partnership for Urban South Hampshire). The part of the district which falls within the South Hampshire area will take 1200 new dwellings between 2006 and 2026, an average of 60 per annum. The remainder of the district (Central Hampshire) will take the remaining 4000 new dwellings between 2006 and 2026, an average of 200 per year. However, in order to satisfy planning policy guidance the housing requirement has to cover the period of 15 years from the next financial year from the year of adoption of the Joint Core Strategy (December 2012). The total housing requirement is therefore 1,320 dwellings for South Hampshire between 2006 and 2028 and 4,400 dwellings for Central Hampshire between 2006 and 2028. The RSS housing figures reflect the substantial body of work carried out for the South East Plan. The figures reflect the environmental and other constraints recognised as existing across the central belt of Hampshire, and in particular in East Hampshire, with the South Downs National Park and internationally protected wildlife designations (Special Protection Areas etc). The Whitehill Bordon Eco-town remains a strategic issue and a matter for the Joint Core Strategy. Objectives have been developed to underpin the strategy that will enable East Hampshire to realise its overall spatial vision and deliver the Green Town Vision for Whitehill Bordon. Provision will be made for up to 4000 dwellings over the Plan period. The housing figures for Whitehill Bordon are in addition to those in the South East Plan referred to above. Any development will help to meet the housing needs of Whitehill Bordon, but will also meet some of the need and demand arising from the wider area. 5 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 The Council has carried out a separate assessment of housing requirements (Local Housing Requirements Study, June 2011, Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners). The study set out a number of scenarios based on different demographic and economic factors. The scenarios are, however, based purely on demographic and economic factors and do not take account of wider issues, such as the vision and objectives in the Joint Core Strategy and the specific constraints which apply to the district. In this respect a key element of the vision of the Joint Core Strategy is the successful development of the Whitehill Bordon Eco-town. The Council is fully committed to the successful development of Whitehill Bordon. Any proposal which undermines this would be contrary to the Joint Core Strategy and could have adverse implications for the successful implementation of this sustainable brownfield development project. In addition, environmental and other constraints are recognised as existing across the central belt of Hampshire, as referred to above. Within the South Downs National Park, housing provision will be restricted to that needed to serve its communities. The National Park Circular1 states that “The Government recognises that the National Parks are not suitable locations for unrestricted housing and does not therefore provide general housing targets for them. The expectation is that new housing will be focused on meeting affordable housing requirements, supporting local employment opportunities and key services”. Figure 1 below shows a summary of the scenarios based on Figure 5.1 of the Local Housing Requirement study, but with a figure of 4,000 dwellings for Whitehill Bordon (taken from the Joint Core Strategy) rather than 5,300 as used in Figure 5.1. Figure 1. Summary of Scenarios RSS Requirement 900 Dis tric t RSS Requir ement With 769 800 Whitehill/Bordon 752 700 598 600 528 514 486 500 400 313 300 New DwellingsNew p.a. 204 200 100 0 A: H: B: Net Housing Baseline Scenario Scenario Scenario C: Long Migration D: Short Scenario Scenario Scenario Scenario G: Lower E: Higher Scenario Economic Economic Term PastTerm Economic Term PastTerm F: Medium Demographic Led Demographic Led Economic Led Housing Led 1 English National Parks and the Broads. UK Government Vision and Circular 2010. 6 East Hampshire District Council SHLAA 2011 The district housing requirement as set out in the South East Plan provides for a level of housing requirement which recognises the constraints which apply to the district.