London Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2015/16 July 2017
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Strategy Title SUBTITLE London Plan Annual Monitoring Report 2015/16 JULY 2017 Date COPYRIGHT CONTENTS Table 1.1 - Main contents Greater London Authority Executive Summary 1 July 2017 Chapter 1 - Introduction 9 Published by Greater London Authority Chapter 2 - Performance Against Key Performance Indicator Targets City Hall 15 The Queen’s Walk Key Performance Indicator 1 16 More London Key Performance Indicator 2 19 London SE1 2AA Key Performance Indicator 3 21 Key Performance Indicator 4 24 www.london.gov.uk Key Performance Indicator 5 29 Enquiries 020 7983 4100 Key Performance Indicator 6 34 Minicom 020 7983 4458 Key Performance Indicator 7 35 Key Performance Indicator 8 36 Key Performance Indicator 9 41 All data from the London Development Database (LDD) except where stated. Key Performance Indicator 10 43 Key Performance Indicator 11 44 Crown Copyright all rights reserved. GLA 10032216 (2017) Key Performance Indicator 12 46 Front cover photo: Eleanor Ward/GLA Key Performance Indicator 13 49 Key Performance Indicator 14 50 Key Performance Indicator 15 52 Key Performance Indicator 16 54 Copies of this document are available from http://www.london.gov.uk Key Performance Indicator 17 57 Key Performance Indicator 18 59 Key Performance Indicator 19 61 Key Performance Indicator 20 63 Key Performance Indicator 21 66 Key Performance Indicator 22 69 Key Performance Indicator 23 70 Key Performance Indicator 24 72 IV LONDON PLAN AMR 13 LONDON PLAN AMR 13 V Chapter 3 - Additional Perfomance Measures and Statistics 75 Housing and Design 76 Housing Provision Annual Monitor 2015/16 76 FIGURES AND MAPS Affordable Housing Delivery Monitor 135 Figure 2.1 - Affordable Housing - Three Year Average Performance by Borough 32 Local Affordable Housing Policies 138 Figure 2.2 - Office Starts and Year-end Permissions in Central London, 1985-2016 38 Achieving an Inclusive Environment 146 Figure 2.3 - Co2 Emissions 68 Environment and Transport 151 Map 3.1 - Total Housing Delivery 2015/16 94 Planning 162 Map 3.2 - Total Housing Delivery as a Percentage of London Plan Housing Monitoring Benchmarks 98 Figure 3.1 - Total Housing Provision By Year 100 Chapter 4 - Other Contextual Data Sources 181 Map 3.3 - Net affordable housing delivery by tenure 110 Map 3.4 - Affordable Housing Delivery as a Percentage of Net Conventional Housing Delivery 2015/16 112 Chapter 5 - Conclusions and Looking Ahead 185 Map 3.5 - Net Conventional Housing Pipeline as at 31/03/2016 130 Figure 3.2 - Affordable housing delivery in London 1991/92 - 2015/16 136 Map 3.6 - London Public Transport Access (PTAL) Map 2015 152 VI LONDON PLAN AMR 13 Executive Summary 2 LONDON PLAN AMR 13 LONDON PLAN AMR 13 3 i. This Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) provides information about progress • Objective 6 – KPIs 1,13,14,15,16,17 being made in implementing the policies and addressing the objectives v. 17 KPI targets are met or heading in the right direction. For KPI 3 (open of the London Plan by showing how London is performing against 24 Key space), KPI 9 (industrial land release) and KPI 14 (car traffic growth) Performance Indicator s (KPIs) identified in Chapter 8 of the Plan. Although a negative has changed to a positive performance. KPI 19 (waste this is the 13th AMR published by the Mayor, it is the first one that monitors management) and KPI 24 (heritage assets) have turned from a positive to a the 2015 London Plan using the slightly modified set of KPI targets mixed trend. Four KPI targets, however, have not been met or are heading introduced through that Plan. the wrong way. For KPI 18 (Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation) a ii. Chapter 2 provides greater detail on each of the 24 KPIs, and Table 1 positive has turned to a negative performance. For one KPI target (KPI 6 – life summarises progress against each of them. The KPIs are not policies; expectancy) data is no longer available. Table 1 provides an overview of the they have been chosen as yardsticks to show the direction of travel in performance of all KPIs. The performance against the individual London Plan implementing the London Plan, and the extent of change, to help monitor Objectives is summarised as follows: progress and identify areas where policy changes may need to be Objective 1- A city that meets the challenges of economic and population considered. growth iii. The London Plan sets six strategic objectives to be delivered by its detailed vi. Net provision of new affordable housing has decreased to 6,675 units, 14% policies. These are that London should be: less than in 2014/15 and over 10,000 below the London Plan affordable • Objective 1- A city that meets the challenges of economic and population housing target. In total, over 38,500 dwellings were completed in 2015/16, growth, 9% below the 2015 London Plan target. An above-target proportion of new residential developments in London have been built on previously developed • Objective 2- An internationally competitive and successful city, land in the last year, and densities within the density matrix range have fallen • Objective 3- A city of diverse, strong, secure and accessible again slightly. neighbourhoods, Objective 2 - An internationally competitive and successful city • Objective 4- A city that delights the senses, vii. At 73% London’s employment rate has continued to rise since 2009. Office • Objective 5- A city that becomes a world leader in improving the starts were lower than in 2015 but still higher than the ten year average, environment, and the office pipeline has remained above its benchmark although it has • Objective 6- A city where it is easy, safe and convenient for everyone to decreased this year. The rate of loss of industrial land was 41 ha, 4 ha above access jobs, opportunities and facilities. the monitoring benchmark. iv. Different KPIs contribute to measuring the performance of the London Plan Objective 3- A city of diverse, strong, secure and accessible against these six objectives; neighbourhoods • Objective 1 – KPIs 1,2,4,5,6,12,14 viii. The employment rate gap between the BAME and white population is • Objective 2 – KPIs 2,7,8,9,10,12,17,24 almost 1% lower than in the previous year, and lone parent income support in London has been 3% lower than in the country as a whole. Employment • Objective 3 – KPIs 2,5,10,11,12,15 in Outer London has increased by 2.4% on the previous year. The pupil/ • Objective 4 – KPIs 1,3,15,19,22,23,24 teacher ratio across London has dropped slightly, with more boroughs • Objective 5 – KPIs 1,3,18,19,20,21,22,23 seeing a fall than in the previous year. Net affordable housing completions (20% of conventional completions in 2015) have been significantly below the 4 LONDON PLAN AMR 13 LONDON PLAN AMR 13 5 numeric target with the three-year average affordable homes share down by Table 1 - KPI Performance Overview a further 4%. KPI KPI Target Comment Objective 4- A city that delights the senses 1 Maintain at least 96 per cent of + Both approvals and completions ix. The proportion of designated heritage assets at risk has generally only new residential development above target, approvals 1.3% changed slightly, but for scheduled monuments the risk has gone down by to be on previously developed above previous year 2.6%. Progress has been made against the 2020 river restoration target, land 30% of it has been achieved by the end of 2015/16. 16 ha designated open space (gross) was lost last year, just over half the amount of space lost in the 2 Over 95 per cent of - Below target, and further slight previous year. In terms of cycling, mode stages have increased by 23k. development to comply with the fall of proportion within matrix housing density location and range on previous year Objective 5- A city that becomes a world leader in improving the the density matrix environment 3 No net loss of open space + Loss at 16 ha compared to 30 ha x. Rates for waste recycling and waste going to landfill have flatlined. Average designated for protection in in the previous year carbon dioxide emission savings have exceeded the Building Regulation LDFs due to new development target. The estimated generation of renewable energy has increased by 45% 4 Average completion of a + Over 38,500 completions but is still well below target. An additional 4.5 ha of green roofs have been minimum of 42,000 net in 2015/16, 9% below 2015 installed between 2013 and 2015. There has been a gross loss of 9 ha of additional homes per year London Plan target protected habitat based on development approvals, higher than previous 5 Completion of 17,000 net - Below target; three year average year’s figure of just 2 ha. additional affordable homes per affordable homes share of net Objective 6- A city where it is easy, safe and convenient for everyone to year conventional supply down by a access jobs, opportunities and facilities further 4% on the previous year xi. Private car and public transport use both declined last year and there was a 6 Reduction in the difference in n/a ONS has stopped publishing slight decrease in the total distance travelled by road traffic across London life expectancy between those mortality data of 0.3% compared to the previous year. The proportion of B1 development living in the most and least in locations with high public transport accessibility has risen slightly and deprived areas of London (split is above the benchmark. In terms of the use of London’s waterways, both by gender) passenger and freight transport on the Thames were slightly up on the 7 Increase in the proportion of + 1.7% increase on previous year previous year.