Five Year Housing Land Supply for the Area Covered by the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034

Five year housing land supply for the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034 Published May 2019 Contents Introduction ..................................................................................................... 3 Determining the housing requirement ........................................................... 4 Establishing the housing supply ................................................................... 5 Outstanding planning permissions .................................................................................. 5 PLP1 housing allocations ................................................................................................. 6 Council-owned land in PLP1 ............................................................................................. 6 Bere Regis Neighbourhood Plan housing allocations ................................................... 6 Swanage Local Plan housing allocations ........................................................................ 7 Wareham Neighbourhood Plan housing allocations ...................................................... 7 Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034 proposed housing allocations ...................................... 7 Windfall ............................................................................................................................... 8 Small sites .......................................................................................................................... 9 Summary of supply .......................................................................................................... 10 Assessing the five-year supply 2019 ........................................................... 11 Calculating the five-year housing requirement ............................................................. 11 Calculating the five-year housing supply ...................................................................... 11 Summary........................................................................................................ 12 Five-Year Housing Land Supply Report Introduction 1. This report sets out the five year housing land supply for the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034, an area formerly covered by Purbeck District Council, now part of Dorset Council. Covering the five-year period from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2024, the statistics used are based on housing land monitoring information as at 1st April 2019. 2. This purpose of this report is to confirm a five year land supply as part of the local plan examination process and it contains a robust assessment of the deliverability of sites within the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan. 3. The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF, Paragraph 73) states that local planning authorities should: “identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide a minimum of five years’ worth of housing against their housing requirement set out in adopted strategic policies, or against their local housing need where the strategic policies are more than five years old”. 4. Paragraph 49 of the National Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) states that where a local planning authority wishes to ‘confirm’ a 5 year land supply, “this needs to be done initially through the plan examination process, and may then be refreshed annually following adoption (provided the plan remains up to date), through the preparation of an Annual Position Statement”. The PPG goes on to explain that, where a local planning authority is seeking to ‘confirm’ its 5 year land supply, “a minimum 10% buffer should be added to the housing requirement to account for fluctuations in the market over the year. Where the Housing Delivery Test indicates that delivery has fallen below 85% of the requirement, a 20% buffer should be added instead”. 5. The Housing Delivery Test results for the period 2015 – 2018 were published in February 2019. These results show that 132% of the required homes were delivered in Purbeck over the test period. As such, there is no requirement for the Council to include a 20% buffer when demonstrating the 5 year housing land supply for the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan. 6. The Council is seeking to confirm the five year housing land supply through the examination of the Purbeck Local Plan, and this report will therefore include a 10% buffer for flexibility. It is intended this report will be refreshed annually through an Annual Position Statement. 7. This report is in three parts: Determine the housing requirement for the five year supply period (2019 – 2024); Establish the five year housing land supply for the supply period; and Assess whether the level of supply meets the housing requirement. Page 3 of 12 Five-Year Housing Land Supply Report Determining the housing requirement 8. The former Purbeck District Council (which has since been replaced by Dorset Council) adopted a Local Plan in 2012 called the Purbeck Local Plan Part 1 (PLP1). Policy HS: Housing Supply of the PLP1 set out a requirement for provision to be made for 2,520 dwellings to meet the district’s housing need over the plan period 2006 – 2027. This is equivalent to 120 dwellings per annum. 9. The adopted Purbeck Local Plan (PLP1) is now more than 5 years old. As such, the Council is required to use the local housing need (LHN), as calculated using the Government’s standard methodology, for the purposes of assessing the five year land supply (paragraph 73 of the NPPF). The LHN for the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan is 168 homes per year. 10. The Council has prepared a new local plan, the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034, which is currently at examination. For the period covered by the Purbeck Local Plan from 2018 to 2034 this equates to a total need of 2,688 homes across the Purbeck area. 11. Appendix A shows that there were 73 completions in the area covered by the Purbeck Local Plan during the period April 2018 – March 2019. This represents a shortfall of 95 dwellings against the LHN (168-73=95). Paragraph 44 of the PPG states that this shortfall “should be added to the plan requirements for the next 5 year period”. 12. In addition, as explained above, the Council needs to include a 10% buffer, as it is seeking to confirm the five year land supply through the examination of the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034. 13. The housing requirement for the period 2019 to 2024 is therefore calculated as follows: a. 168 dwellings per year LHN x 5 years = 840 b. 840 + shortfall in completions 2018-2019 (168-73=95) = 935 c. 935 + 10% buffer = 1029 dwellings (rounded to nearest whole number) d. 1028.5 dwellings / 5 years = 206 dwellings (annual housing completion requirement) (rounded to nearest whole number) Page 4 of 12 Five-Year Housing Land Supply Report Establishing the housing supply 15. Paragraph 73 of the NPPF requires local planning authorities to “identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide a minimum of five years’ worth of housing” (emphasis added). The term ‘deliverable’ is defined in the Glossary of the NPPF as follows: “Deliverable: To be considered deliverable, sites for housing should be available now, offer a suitable location for development now, and be achievable with a realistic prospect that housing will be delivered on the site within five years. In particular: a) sites which do not involve major development and have planning permission, and all sites with detailed planning permission, should be considered deliverable until permission expires, unless there is clear evidence that homes will not be delivered within five years (for example because they are no longer viable, there is no longer a demand for the type of units or sites have long term phasing plans). b) where a site has outline planning permission for major development, has been allocated in a development plan, has a grant of permission in principle, or is identified on a brownfield register, it should only be considered deliverable where there is clear evidence that housing completions will begin on site within five years”. 16. The Council has considered the following potential sources of supply when preparing this report: Outstanding planning permissions PLP1 housing allocations Council-owned land in PLP1 Bere Regis Neighbourhood Plan housing allocations Swanage Local Plan housing allocations Wareham Neighbourhood Plan housing allocations Proposed housing allocations in the Purbeck Local Plan 2018-2034 Windfall Small sites 17. Each potential source of supply is considered in more detail below. Outstanding planning permissions 18. The table in Appendix A provides a list of all outstanding planning permissions (dwellings under construction or with consent but not started at 1st April 2019). The majority of the planning permissions for major development were full planning permissions and can be taken as being deliverable within the next five years in accordance with the definition of deliverable in the NPPF. There are two exceptions to this relating to Huntick Road, Lytchett Matravers and Spyway Orchard, Langton Matravers. Page 5 of 12 Five-Year Housing Land Supply Report 19. Land at Huntick Road, Lytchett Matravers has been granted full planning permission for 46 homes subject to completion of a legal agreement. This site has been counted towards the five year land supply as it is considered that the delivery of homes within the next 5 years is highly likely. 20. Land at Spyway Orchard, Langton Matravers was granted outline planning permission

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