CONTENTS PAGE Section 1: Introduction 1 Legislative Requirement for Production of Annual Monitoring Reports 1 Herefordshire AMR 2013 Content and Format 1 Limitations of the Annual Monitoring Report 1 Section 2: Local Development Framework Preparations 2 Introduction 2 Core Strategy 2 Herefordshire Area Plan 2 Market Towns and Rural Areas Plans 2 Minerals and Waste Development Plan Document 3 Summary of progress 3 Section 3: Housing 4 Housing Delivery 4 Use of Previously Developed Land 5 Housing completions by tenure type and location 7 Affordable Housing Provision 11 Gypsy and Traveller Sites 12 Section 4: Employment 14 Draft Core Strategy Objective: Economic Prosperity 6 14 Employment Land delivery 14 The Amount of Land Developed for Employment by Type 14 Employment Land Supply by Type 16 Loss of Existing Employment Land and Premises to Other Uses 17 Conclusion 17 Section 5: Town Centres and Retail 18 Draft Core Strategy Objective: Economic Prosperity 6 18 Draft Core Strategy Objective: Economic Prosperity 7 18 Draft Core Strategy Objective: Economic Prosperity 8 18 Redevelopment of Hereford Livestock Market 21 Conclusion 22 Section 6: Minerals 23 Objective M (1) 23 Objective M (2) 26 Limitations in Minerals Information 27 Other Minerals Activities 27 Section 7: Waste 29 Objective W (1) 29 Targets W (1) 30 Core Indicators W (1) 30 Limitations in Waste Information 31 Future Work 32 Section 8: Five Year Housing Land Supply 34 Introduction 34 Planning Policy 34 Planning Policy Guidance (published 6th March 2014) 35 Recent Local Appeal Decisions Relating to Five Year Supply 35 Calculating the Housing Land Position 35 West Midlands Regional Spatial Panel Report Phase Two Revision 36 Emerging Core Strategy 37 Methodology 39 Sites with Planning Permission 40 Allocated sites in Herefordshire Unitary Development Plan (HUDP) 40 Discount Rate 41 Windfall Assessment 41 Additional Calculation Factors 43 Shortfall of Housing Supply from Previous Years 44 Buffers 44 Using Supply Methodology Alongside the RSS Panel Report and Emerging Core 44 Strategy Targets Housing Land Supply for Herefordshire 46 Next Steps 47 Section 9: Neighbourhood Plans 48 Neighbourhood Planning in Herefordshire 48 List of Figures Fig 1: Local Development Scheme 2010 Achievements 3 Fig 2: Housing Trajectory 2011-2031 5 Fig 3: Housing Completions 2011/12 and 2012/13 6 Fig 4: Density of Completions 7 Fig 5: Housing Completions by Area 2011-12 8 Fig 6: Housing Completions by Area 2012-13 8 Fig 7: Housing Market Area Completions 2012-13 9 Fig 8: Housing Market Areas 10 Fig 9: Affordable Housing delivered 2011/12 and 2012/13 11 Fig 10: Affordable Homes – Losses and Gains 2011-2013 12 Fig 11: Number of pitches delivered in 2011/12 and 2012/13 13 Fig 12: Council owned pitches 13 Fig 13: Employment Completions 2012/13 by Type/ sqm and Location 15 Fig 14: Employment losses 2012/13 by Type/sqm and Location 15 Fig 15: Employment Commitments 2012/13 by type/sqm and Location 16 Fig 16: Breakdown of applications on Greenfield/ Brownfield Land 16 Fig 17: Active/complete Employment Applications Approved 1st April 2011 to 31st 17 March 2013 on Greenfield/Brownfield Land Fig 18: Floorspace (sqm) Lost to Alternative Uses on Completed sites 17 Fig 19: Retail Completions 2011-13 by type/sqm and Location 19 Fig 20: Retail Commitments 2013 by type/sqm and Location 20 Fig 21: Retail Class use Lost to other Uses on Completed sites in sqm and by 21 Location Fig 22: Redevelopment of Hereford Livestock Market 21 Fig 23: Herefordshire Municipal Waste 2005-2013 32 Fig 24: R4.1 of the RSS Panel Report (Addendum) 36 Fig 25: Summary of Panel Report trajectory 37 Fig 26: Emerging Core Strategy indicative housing trajectory by settlement 38 Fig 27: Overall Emerging Core Strategy Housing Trajectory 38 Fig 28: Combined RSS Panel Report and emerging Core Strategy trajectory 39 Fig 29: Commitments 40 Fig 30: Planning applications in progress on allocated UDP sites 41 Fig 31: Historic windfall completion rates 42 Fig 32: Anticipated windfall 42 Fig 33: Total deliverable sites 43 Fig 34: Completions compared with RSS Panel Report 43 Fig 35: Completions compared with emerging Core Strategy 44 Fig 36: Assessment against WMRSS Panel Report target 45 Fig 37: Assessment against emerging Core Strategy target 46 Fig 38: Submission of NA Applications 48 Fig 39: Neighbourhood Plans in Hereford 49 Appendices Appendix 1: Hotel and Leisure Approvals 2012-13 50 Appendix 2: Renewable Energy Approvals 2011-13 52 Appendix 3: Polytunnels Approvals 2011-13 63 Appendix 4: Hereford Local Aggregates Assessment December 2013 65 Appendix 5: Five Year Housing Land Supply – Commitments by Location 94 Appendix 6: Excerpt Cabinet Report 12th July 2012 122 Appendix 7: Glossary 126 Section 1: INTRODUCTION Legislative Requirement for Production of Annual Monitoring Reports 1.1 From 2005 there has been a requirement for local authorities to produce an AMR each year, based on a period running from 1st April to 31st March. 1.2 AMRs are required to assess: (a) the implementation of the Local Development Scheme (LDS); and (b) the extent to which policies in the Local Development Documents are being achieved. Herefordshire AMR 2013 Content and Format 1.3 This AMR is concerned with the assessment of the Council planning policies. This AMR is a hybrid document in that in some areas it provides an assessment of outcomes against adopted policies of the Herefordshire Unitary Development Plan (UDP), whilst in other areas (particularly where UDP policies are considered to be out of date) progress towards emerging Herefordshire Local Plan-Core Strategy policy targets are used to measure progress. 1.4 A revision to the LDS was published in January. Limitations of the Annual Monitoring Report 1.5 Throughout this report updates have been given on deficiencies in the monitoring information. Where such gaps in data are identified, the AMR continues to set out steps that could be taken to improve future data collection. As the evidence base being established for the Local Plan- Core Strategy continues to be developed it will provide useful and accurate data to measure policies and therefore, deficiencies in information and data are likely to reduce. Tables with planning permissions granted between 1st April 2011 and 31st March 2013 in respect of hotel, leisure, renewable energy and poly tunnel approvals can be found in Appendix 5. 1 Section 2: LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK PREPARATION Monitoring the Local Development Scheme Introduction 2.1 This section reports on progress in achieving the timetable and milestones set out in the Council’s Local Development Scheme (LDS) operative from June 2010. 2.2 Each proposed Local Development Document identified in the LDS is listed below, with a brief review of progress in meeting the milestones and timetable in the reporting period, 2012/2013. The LDS has been updated in January 2014 and progress against this document will be reported upon in the 2014 AMR. Core Strategy 2.3 Work on the Core Strategy began in September 2006. Early consultation on issues to be addressed was undertaken in June 2007, with a more formal consultation on this aspect in September 2007. The publication of a Developing Options Paper was undertaken in the summer of 2008 and the “Place Shaping Paper” was subject to an extensive consultation in January, February and March 2010. Later in 2010 a series of preferred option consultations were undertaken. 2.4 However, the target of publishing the Core Strategy in February 2011 as set out in the June 2010 LDS was not achieved primarily as a result of legislative changes to the planning system and the need to further update key elements of evidence. Revisions to the draft proposals emerging through the Core Strategy resulted in a revised preferred options consultation being undertaken in 2011 and a Draft Local Plan - Core Strategy was published for consultation in March 2013. 2.5 Adoption of the Local Plan – Core Strategy is now anticipated for the end of 2014/ beginning of 2015. Hereford Area Plan 2.6 This document was added to the LDS in 2008. Work on evidence gathering for this document began in May 2008. Along with the Core Strategy and the Market Towns and Rural Areas Plan it featured in the “Place Shaping Paper” consultation of January, February and March 2010 and as part of subsequent preferred option consultations. As a result of delays with the Core Strategy progress on the Hereford Area Plan has not been as anticipated in the LDS. A revised timetable will be set out in the AMR (2014). Market Towns and Rural Areas Plan 2.7 This document was added to the LDS in January 2009 and, like the Hereford Area Plan, featured as part of the Place Shaping Paper consultation. However, with the introduction of Neighbourhood Development Plans the need for the preparation of a detailed plan for the market towns and rural areas has been reassessed and the preparation of this plan does not feature in the latest version of the LDS (2014). 2 Minerals and Waste Development Plan Document 2.8 The 2010 LDS includes a new proposed Local Development Document, a Minerals and Waste DPD, which was planned for 2013/2014. Progress on that will feature in subsequent AMRs. As a result of delays with the Core Strategy progress on the Minerals and Waste DPD Plan has not been as anticipated in the LDS. The latest LDS sets out a timetable for producing a Natural Resources DPD, incorporating Minerals and Waste. Progress on the progress of this document will be reported in future AMRs. Summary of progress 2.9 Figure 1 below summarises the achievement against the timetable in the Local Development Scheme of June 2010.