Authority Monitoring Report 2018-2020
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Authority Monitoring Report 2018-2020 Contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................. 4 1. Introduction .......................................................................................................... 6 1a. Plans and Strategies ................................................................................................... 6 1b. Local Plan sites ........................................................................................................... 6 2. Housing – key statistics ...................................................................................... 8 3. Housing supply .................................................................................................. 10 3a. Local Plan sites ......................................................................................................... 10 3b. Windfall ..................................................................................................................... 11 3c. Residential Permitted development ............................................................................ 14 3d. Five Year Housing Land Supply ................................................................................ 16 4. Accommodation for Different Housing Needs ................................................. 17 4a. Affordable Housing (including homeless accommodation) ......................................... 17 4b. Older People’s Accommodation ................................................................................. 19 4c. Gypsy & Traveller Accommodation ............................................................................ 19 4d. Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) ..................................................................... 19 4e. Self-Build and Custom Build Housing ........................................................................ 20 5. Employment ........................................................................................................ 21 5a. Labour market profile ................................................................................................. 21 5b. Local Plan employment sites ..................................................................................... 22 5c. Non-Local Plan employment sites .............................................................................. 23 6. Town Centres...................................................................................................... 24 6a. Waltham Cross Town Centre ..................................................................................... 24 6b. Cheshunt Old Pond ................................................................................................... 26 6c. Hoddesdon Town Centre ........................................................................................... 27 7. Green Belt ........................................................................................................... 28 7a. Extent of Green Belt .................................................................................................. 28 7b. Development in the Green Belt .................................................................................. 30 8. Infrastructure ...................................................................................................... 33 Essex Road Bridge .......................................................................................................... 33 Goffs Academy ................................................................................................................ 33 New Primary School at High Leigh Garden Village .......................................................... 33 Goffs Churchgate Academy ............................................................................................. 34 9. Public Inquiries................................................................................................... 34 Energy Recovery Facility (incinerator), Ratty’s Lane, Hoddesdon .................................... 34 Appendix A: House prices, annual earnings, and affordability.......................... 36 2 Appendix B: Progress at Local Plan Housing Sites .................................................. 37 Appendix C: Major schemes under construction as at February 2021 ..................... 41 Appendix D: Permitted Development Schemes ....................................................... 43 Appendix E: Labour Market Statistics....................................................................... 47 Appendix F: List of housing completions and commitments in 2018/19 ................... 52 Appendix G: List of housing completions and commitments in 2019/20................... 52 Appendix H: Housing Trajectory (including 15 year supply) ..................................... 52 Figures Figure 1: Local Plan Key Diagram ..................................................................................................... 7 Figure 2: Median housing affordability ratios in Broxbourne, 1997-2019 .................................... 8 Figure 3: Commitments, completions and housing requirements 2009-2020 ............................ 9 Figure 4: Windfall v Local Plan delivery, 2009-2021 .................................................................... 11 Figure 5: Prior notification dwelling completions and commitments 2013-2020 ...................... 15 Figure 6: affordable housing completions, 2010-2020 ................................................................. 17 Figure 7: Change in total jobs with the borough, 2000-2019....................................................... 21 Figure 8: Changing occupation of borough residents, 2000-2020 ............................................. 21 Figure 9: Vacancy rates in the main shopping centres, 2020 ..................................................... 24 Figure 10: Proposed Local Plan Green Belt deletions ................................................................. 29 Figure 11: Residential development in the Green Belt, 2009-20 ................................................ 32 Tables Table 1: Housing delivery since the 2016 base year .................................................................... 16 Table 2: Five-year housing land supply position ........................................................................... 16 Table 3: Self-build and custom build register, permissions, and completions .......................... 20 Table 4: Green Belt scheduled for deletion upon adoption of the Local Plan ........................... 28 Table 5: Residential completions in the Green Belt 2018/19 ...................................................... 30 Table 6: Residential completions in the Green Belt, 2019/20 ..................................................... 30 3 Executive Summary Plans and Strategies The Cheshunt Old Pond Strategy was adopted in March 2020 The Local Plan 2018-2033 was adopted in June 2020 Housing The average house price decreased by £500 to £351,500 Housing affordability reduced slightly, as the ratio of median house prices to earnings was 11.53, up from 11.17 in 2018 457 net additional dwellings were completed during 2018/9 and 150 during 2019/20 including developments at Britannia Nurseries and Hazlemere Marina in Waltham Cross, and at Cheshunt School and the former St Mary’s School site The total number of dwellings in the borough was 41,166 on 1 April 2020 Planning permission was granted for 2,336 new dwellings in 2019/20, including 1,725 at Cheshunt Lakeside, 360 at Tudor Nurseries, 153 at Broxbourne School 53 affordable homes were completed in 2018/9 and 47 in 2019/20, including 36 at Britannia Nurseries, 8 at Church House, and 32 temporary homeless accommodation units at Unit 1 Delamare road (Cheshunt Lakeside) A 60-bed care home at the former Speakerbus site was completed and a new care home was under construction at the former Wormley primary school site Permitted development (prior notifications) accounted for the delivery of 49 dwellings in 2018/19 (including 44 at Bartholomew Court, Waltham Cross) and 2 in 2019/20 The five-year housing land supply at 1 April 2020 is 3,803 dwellings or 5.39 years Employment The total number of jobs in the borough (including the self-employed) decreased to around 40,000 as shown in Figure 8 below, but the number of economically inactive residents aged 16-64 decreased slightly to 20.3% Median gross annual workplace earnings fell from £31,525 in 2018 to £30,497 in 2019 Median annual workplace earnings decreased by £1,028 to £30,497 10,280 sqm of new employment floorspace was created at Volker Wessels Headquarters in Hoddesdon and the opening of a new car showroom and offices at Big Motoring World on the A10 at Park Plaza Planning permission was granted for new employment space including a hyper-scale data centre at Maxwells Farm West, and 11,500 sqm of warehousing at the Monro Business Park, Waltham Cross Town Centres The Cheshunt Old Pond Strategy was adopted Queen Eleanor Square, Waltham Cross major public realm scheme completed Permission was granted for a new 60-bed hotel in Waltham Cross town centre Green Belt The total extent of Green Belt was due to decrease by 490 hectares from 3,314 hectares to 2,824 hectares as a result of adoption of the Local Plan (which took place after the monitoring year) 4 Eight developments took place in the Green Belt during 2019/20, delivering 41 dwellings, and 136 dwellings were delivered in 2018/19.