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Stockport Housing Needs Assessment 2019 Stockport Council Final Report November 2019 Main Contact: Dr Michael Bullock Email: [email protected] Telephone: 0800 612 9133 Website: www.arc4.co.uk © 2019 arc4 Limited (Company No. 06205180) STOCKPORT BOROUGH HNA 2019 Page | 2 Table of Contents Executive Summary ........................................................................................................... 12 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 12 Housing market context .................................................................................................. 12 Dwelling need, type and mix .......................................................................................... 14 1. Introduction ........................................................................................................... 19 Background, aims and objectives ................................................................................... 19 Geography ....................................................................................................................... 19 Research methodology ................................................................................................... 22 Presentation of data ....................................................................................................... 22 Report structure .............................................................................................................. 22 2. Policy and strategic review ..................................................................................... 24 National context.............................................................................................................. 24 National Planning Policy Framework .............................................................................. 24 Funding for new housing ................................................................................................ 26 Regional Context ............................................................................................................. 26 Local context ................................................................................................................... 27 Concluding comments .................................................................................................... 28 3. Understanding Stockport housing market dynamics ............................................... 30 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 30 House price trends .......................................................................................................... 30 Relative affordability ....................................................................................................... 38 Household migration ...................................................................................................... 40 Travel to work trends ...................................................................................................... 43 Past trends in housing delivery ....................................................................................... 45 Concluding comments .................................................................................................... 49 4. Housing stock review.............................................................................................. 51 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 51 Estimates of current dwellings in terms of size, type, condition, tenure ....................... 51 The age and condition of Stockport’s housing ............................................................... 57 Housing tenure................................................................................................................ 61 The owner-occupied sector ............................................................................................ 64 The private rented sector ............................................................................................... 66 Affordable housing .......................................................................................................... 72 Relative affordability of housing tenure options and defining genuinely affordable housing ............................................................................................................................ 74 Concluding comments .................................................................................................... 95 5. Affordable housing need ........................................................................................ 97 November 2019 STOCKPORT BOROUGH HNA 2019 Page | 3 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 97 Affordable Housing Needs Assessment .......................................................................... 97 Tenure split ...................................................................................................................104 Summary .......................................................................................................................107 6. The needs of different groups ............................................................................... 108 Introduction ..................................................................................................................108 Housing requirements of older people, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups ...........................................................................................................................108 Planning Practice Guidance ..........................................................................................109 Context: Stockport Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) ......................................110 Structure of this chapter ...............................................................................................113 Housing for Older People ..............................................................................................113 Future need for specialist older person accommodation and residential care provision .......................................................................................................................................124 Stakeholder views on older persons’ housing ..............................................................135 Conclusions of the need for older persons’ housing ....................................................135 Stakeholder views on adaptions to existing properties ...............................................139 Housing for people with disabilities and additional needs ..........................................140 Benefit claimants - disability living allowance (DLA) by disabling condition ................142 Specialist housing need in Stockport borough .............................................................144 Health-related housing need ........................................................................................146 Life experience-related housing need ..........................................................................152 Other stakeholder views on specialist housing in Stockport ........................................155 Optional accessibility and wheelchair standard housing .............................................156 Summary of need of accommodation for people with additional needs ....................158 People who rent their homes .......................................................................................159 Self-build and custom housebuilding ...........................................................................159 Student housing need ...................................................................................................160 Homeless and previously homeless households ..........................................................161 Black and Minority Ethnic households (BAME) ............................................................162 Gypsy and Traveller Households...................................................................................166 Summary .......................................................................................................................166 7. Dwelling type and mix .......................................................................................... 168 Introduction ..................................................................................................................168 Summary of scenarios ...................................................................................................170 Overall dwelling mix by tenure .....................................................................................170 Sub-area analysis ..........................................................................................................172 Conclusions ...................................................................................................................177 8. Conclusion: policy and strategic issues .................................................................. 178 November 2019 STOCKPORT BOROUGH HNA 2019 Page | 4 Dwelling type, tenure and mix ......................................................................................178