Babergh District Council Housing Land Supply Position Statement
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Babergh District Council Housing Land Supply Position Statement 2019/20 – 2023/24 | July 2019 CONTENTS PAGE 1.0 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 3 a) BDC Housing Land Supply Position Statement – Draft for Consultation – July 2019 ................................................................................................................ 3 2.0 Policy and Guidance ..................................................................................................... 5 a) National Planning Policy and Guidance .................................................................. 5 i) Identifying the Housing Requirement ...................................................................... 5 ii) Determining the Supply .......................................................................................... 6 iii) Approach to Preparing Five Year Land Supply Statements .................................... 7 3.0 Method ........................................................................................................................... 8 a) Method of Consultation .......................................................................................... 8 b) Initial Identification of Sites ..................................................................................... 8 c) Assumptions on Lead-In Times and Delivery Rates ............................................... 8 d) Sites Under Construction ..................................................................................... 10 e) Sites with Full Planning Permissions .................................................................... 10 f) Sites with Outline Planning Permissions .............................................................. 10 g) Sites under 10 Dwellings ...................................................................................... 11 h) Lapse Rate ........................................................................................................... 11 i) Windfall ................................................................................................................ 12 j) Specialist Accommodation ................................................................................... 12 4.0 Housing Requirement for Babergh ............................................................................ 13 a) Housing Delivery Test Calculation ........................................................................ 13 5.0 National Evidence on the Delivery of Housing .......................................................... 15 a) National Evidence on Housing Delivery on Housing Sites .................................... 16 i) Letwin Review (2018) ........................................................................................... 16 ii) ‘Start to Finish How Quickly do Large-Scale Housing Sites Deliver?’ By NLP (November 2016) ......................................................................................... 16 iii) ‘The Role of Land Pipelines in the UK Housebuilding Process’ by Chamberlain Walker (2017) .................................................................................. 17 iv) HBF Paper (2016) ................................................................................................ 18 v) ‘Housing Delivery on Strategic Sites’ by Colin Buchanan Report (2005) .............. 18 vi) ‘Urban Extensions: Assessment of Delivery Rates’ by Savills (2013) ................... 19 vii) ‘Factors Affecting Housing Build-out Rates’ by University of Glasgow (2008) ....... 19 b) Completions per Outlet from National House Builders .......................................... 21 Babergh District Council Position Statement Draft for Consultation.V2 1 6.0 Local Evidence of Past Housing Delivery.................................................................. 23 a) Housing Delivery Monitoring................................................................................. 23 b) Local Past Rates of Delivery ................................................................................ 23 c) Conclusion on Potential Delivery Rates ................................................................ 25 7.0 Local Evidence of Lead-In Times ............................................................................... 26 a) Conclusion on Potential Lead-In Times ................................................................ 27 8.0 Housing Land Supply / Site Assessments ................................................................ 29 a) Sites with Detailed Planning Permission............................................................... 29 b) Sites with Outline Planning Permission ................................................................ 29 c) Summary of Housing Land Supply ....................................................................... 31 9.0 Windfall Assessment .................................................................................................. 33 a) Methodology ........................................................................................................ 33 b) Sources of Windfall .............................................................................................. 34 10.0 Land Supply Position .................................................................................................. 37 a) Housing Land Supply Components and Housing Land Supply Position ............... 37 Appendix 1: Glossary of Terms ........................................................................................... 38 Appendix 2: Framework/Guidance Checklist ..................................................................... 41 Appendix 3: Statement of Common Grounds / Deliverability Evidence ........................... 42 Appendix 4: Regional Evidence of Delivery ....................................................................... 43 Appendix 5: List of Documents Referenced ....................................................................... 44 Appendix 6: Housing Trajectory.......................................................................................... 46 Babergh District Council Position Statement Draft for Consultation.V2 2 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 This Housing Land Supply Position Statement (‘HLSPS’) provides information on the five-year housing land supply for the Babergh district and covers the period from 1st April 2019 to 31st March 2024. All the information reported is the most up-to-date available at the time of publication. 1.2 The National Planning Policy Framework (2019) (‘The Framework’) required 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” (paragraph 73) against their housing requirement. 1.3 The purpose of this 2019 HLSPS is to provide an up-to-date assessment of the housing land supply position in Babergh. It has been produced in consultation with key stakeholders, informed by the comments received during the consultation process and entirely supersedes all previously published land supply position statements 1.4 A Glossary of Terms is contained at Appendix 1 and a list of referenced documents is contained at Appendix 5. A detailed housing trajectory is contained at Appendix 6. 1.5 Babergh District Council has worked alongside DLP Planning Ltd in the preparation of this position statement. 1.6 Babergh District Council also prepare a Strategic Housing & Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA). This is an assessment of land availability which identifies a future supply of land which is suitable, available and achievable for housing and economic development uses over the plan period. The SHELAA assessment is an important evidence source to inform plan making but does not in itself determine whether a site should be allocated for development. Within the SHELAA is the full end of year outstanding planning permissions schedule. a) BDC Housing Land Supply Position Statement – Draft for Consultation – July 2019 1.7 The Housing Land Supply (‘HLS’) is calculated by comparing the anticipated supply of new homes within the district over a five-year period against the Council’s housing requirement. For Babergh District Council, the housing requirement is established by using the standard method provided by national policy and guidance. This is because the strategic housing policies in the Core Strategy for Babergh are more than five years old. 1.8 It is important that the Council can adequately evidence its HLS position in order to inform decisions made that will continue to deliver new homes to meet ongoing needs. If the Council cannot show that it is meeting these housing needs, their policies with regards to residential development will be considered to be "out of date" and carry less weight when making decisions on planning applications. In addition, it is important that stakeholders in the housing sector understand what the current land supply position of the Council is. 1.9 On that basis the Council has prepared this draft HLSPS for consultation. Comments received will inform a final HLS position statement. 1.10 The Council therefore invite comments on this draft HLS position statement, the consultation will run from the 19 July to 16 August 2019. Babergh District Council Position Statement Draft for Consultation.V2 3 1.11 Please send your comments to: [email protected] 1.12 We expect to publish the final HLS position statement shortly