LOCAL AUTHORITY SHMA CONSULTATION RESPONSE FORM - OCTOBER 2009

Section 7 - Copeland Responses

Respondent Cumbria Housing Group Responses Action taken ID 35 Name Councillor Hugh Branney Agency Copeland Borough Council Address

Q1 Q2 Q2A Need to ensure correlation between recommendations for affordable housing and LDNPA The Lake District National Park Authority Local Development Framework sets out affordable Correlation with LDNPA policy requires further consideration in future reviews of the SHMAs. policy (which states numbers required for each district) housing targets for Cumbria using targets set out by the Regional Spacial Strategy. These targets are not arregated down to District Authority level. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8

ID 36 Name Councillor Margaret Woodburn Agency Copeland Borough Council Address

Q1 Q2 Q2A Need to refer to the five locality areas and explain why these are not used. SHMAs too The SHMAs are an evolution of the 2006 Housing Market Assessments published by the Cumbria Correlation with Locality Areas to be reviewed in future SHMA reviews. general- perhaps consultation would receive better response if they were more specific district authorities. The 2006 Housing Market Assessments use Housing Market Areas which e.g. if they used locality areas were defined in 2005-06 prior to the introduction of Locality Areas. The SHMAs are intended to update and expand upon the original 2006 Housing Market Assessments and therefore refer to the same geographical areas. SHMAs too general: The Housing Market Areas were defined using a range of information including Travel to Work Areas and housing data, and are intended to provide a broad overarching summary of housing markets in each Housing Market Area and district. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8

ID 37 Name Martin Jepson, Head of Legal and Democratic Services Agency Copeland Borough Council Address

Q1 Q2 Q2A Thanks for this. I was very interested to see the projections about the ageing or our local Ageing population: Cumbria County Council and other partners are undertaking a Joint Future reviews to consider incorporation of JSNA data. population in the years to 2031. Assessment of population trends for the future is going to Strategic Needs Assessment. It is anticipated that the results of the Assessment could be be very difficult. There is a natural temptation to be overly optimistic about Copeland's incorporated into the SHMAs at some further stage in order to supplement existing data on the economic prospects but perhaps the best we can do is to work to a cautious middle ageing population. Economic Prospects: Economic models currently incorporated in SHMAs are ground assessment- for what my opinion is worth. based upon 2007-08 data and it is acknowledged that the assumptions behind the data are subject to change. Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8