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ROYAL BOROUGH OF WINDSOR AND MAIDENHEAD HOUSING TOPIC PAPER 2019 OCTOBER 2019 1 CONTENTS 1. Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Purpose of this document .............................................................................................................................. 4 Document Scope ............................................................................................................................................ 4 2. Housing Need ................................................................................................................................................. 6 Berkshire (including South Bucks) SHMA (2016) ............................................................................................ 6 Housing Market Areas .................................................................................................................................... 6 Objectively Assessed Housing Need (OAHN) ................................................................................................. 8 Updating the 2016 OAHN ............................................................................................................................... 8 Use of the Standard Method .......................................................................................................................... 9 Affordable Housing Need ............................................................................................................................. 11 3. Housing Target ............................................................................................................................................. 12 Constraints and wider policy objectives and priorities ................................................................................ 12 Available Housing Land Supply .................................................................................................................... 13 SHLAA Supply ................................................................................................................................................ 13 Windfall Allowance ....................................................................................................................................... 14 Permitted Development ............................................................................................................................... 16 Completions and Commitments .................................................................................................................. 17 Current Total Housing Supply ....................................................................................................................... 17 Maximising Supply ....................................................................................................................................... 18 Maximising the use of brownfield land ........................................................................................................ 19 Maximising density ....................................................................................................................................... 19 Green belt release ........................................................................................................................................ 20 Meeting unmet need of other authorities.................................................................................................... 20 The RBWM housing target ........................................................................................................................... 23 4. Housing Trajectory and Phasing ................................................................................................................... 24 Five Year Housing Land Supply ..................................................................................................................... 25 5. Housing site selection & Distribution ........................................................................................................... 28 The review of the BLPSV site allocations ..................................................................................................... 28 Development of the site selection methodology ......................................................................................... 29 Outcomes of the site allocation review process ........................................................................................... 30 Distribution .................................................................................................................................................. 33 6. Housing Density ........................................................................................................................................... 35 7. Housing Mix ................................................................................................................................................. 36 8. Affordable Housing ...................................................................................................................................... 37 9. Housing for specific groups .......................................................................................................................... 39 2 Housing Needs of Older People ................................................................................................................... 39 People with Disabilities ................................................................................................................................ 40 Rural Exception Sites .................................................................................................................................... 40 Starter Homes .............................................................................................................................................. 40 Custom/Self Build Housing ........................................................................................................................... 41 Gypsies and Travellers.................................................................................................................................. 41 10. Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace (SANG) .................................................................................... 43 Appendix A – Calculating the OAN for RBWM ...................................................................................................... 45 Appendix B – Site selection methodology ............................................................................................................ 53 Appendix C – Sites selected for Housing Allocation ............................................................................................. 58 Appendix D –Sites Rejected for Housing Allocation ............................................................................................. 66 3 1. INTRODUCTION Purpose of this document 1.1 This Housing Topic Paper forms part of the evidence base underpinning the Borough Local Plan 2013-2033 Submission Version (BLPSV), and in particular, the changes being proposed to the plan in October 2019. The version of the BLPSV that includes the proposed changes is hereafter referred to as the BLPSV-PC. 1.2 The purpose of the paper is to support the BLP at examination and to provide further detail on the proposed changes to the BLPSV relating to housing that have arisen from the work the council has undertaken to address the Inspector’s questions set out in ID/07 and ID/09v2. 1.3 The paper provides background information and explains the processes that have been undertaken in reaching the policies set out in the BLPSV-PC. It does not contain any policies, proposals or site allocations. Document Scope 1.4 The main areas covered by the Topic Paper are: Housing need Housing target Housing trajectory and phasing Site selection Housing distribution Housing mix Affordable housing need Housing for specific groups Housing delivery Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspace 1.5 As the BLPSV was submitted for in January 2018 it is subject to transitional arrangements and is being examined under the provisions of the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 (NPPF) and under the relevant Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) in place at the time of the submission. Where relevant, more recent provisions contained in the NPPF and PPG have been referred to but, unless otherwise stated, references to the NPPF are made in relation to the 2012 version. 4 1.6 This Topic Paper supersedes Chapter 5 of the Updated Shaping the Future Topic Paper, January 2018. 5 2. HOUSING NEED Berkshire (including South Bucks) SHMA (2016) 2.1 The NPPF requires local authorities to ‘have a clear understanding of housing need in their area’ and that they should prepare a Strategic Housing Market Area (SHMA) to ‘assess their full housing needs’.1 To take account of updated information, and to fully understand the housing need on a strategic scale the 6 Berkshire LPAs and the Thames Valley LEP commissioned consultants GL Hearn to prepare a SHMA for the period 2013-2036. This position is supported by the PPG, which encourages an assessment of development needs across local authority areas in line with the duty to cooperate.2 Housing Market Areas 2.2 The 2016 SHMA reviewed Housing Market Area (HMA) geographies by taking account of