South Kesteven District Council

Annual Position Statement July 2020

July 2020

Annual Position Statement - July 2020 District Council

Executive Summary

National planning guidance requires local planning authorities to identify and maintain a rolling specific deliverable supply of sites, sufficient to provide five years’ worth of housing against their annual requirement. The Housing Supply and Delivery Planning Practice Guidance (PPG) states that Local Authorities can fix their housing land supply through either a recently adopted plan or an Annual Position Statement (APS).

In accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) and the PPG, this APS sets out an assessment of whether there is a five-year supply of deliverable housing land within South Kesteven District; and seeks to fix South Kesteven’s 5 Year Housing Land Supply.

This paper should be read in conjunction with the accompanying Engagement Statement which sets out in detail developer and stakeholder engagement; and explains how it has informed assessment of deliverability.

The Local Plan, adopted on 30th January 2020, sets out a requirement for 16,125 homes to be built over the plan period 2011-2036, at an average of 650 homes per year. Since the plan period started in 2011, there has been a shortfall of 490 dwellings. Spreading the shortfall across the plan period results in a requirement of 10,890 across the remainder of the plan period, and 3,403 in the 5 year period.

The Liverpool method, which spreads the shortfall over the remaining Plan Period is used due to the number of strategic sites within the housing supply of the Local Plan. Use of the method was agreed with the Inspector at examination and is set out as a requirement at paragraph 5.13 of the adopted Local Plan. As the large sites gather pace, the Council will then switch the method to Sedgefield, after the 5 year period and spread the shortfall over the first 5 years. This approach is set out at paragraph 5.13 of the adopted Local Plan.

Due to past shortfall, the 2019 Housing Delivery Test result for South Kesteven is 82%. As such a 20% buffer has been applied to the 5 year supply. The Council’s 2019 Action Plan is also being updated.

South Kesteven currently has an identifiable and deliverable housing land supply of 4492 homes expected to come forward over the next five years which equates to 5.50 years supply. This is made up of the following:

Supply Total Small Sites with planning permission, including under construction 505 Windfall Allowance expected to contribute to the supply in later years (2022/23 - 90 2024/25) Large sites with Planning Permission not under-construction 407 Large Sites Under-construction 696 Sustainable Urban Extensions with Planning Permission 571 Local Plan Allocations (Deliverable Sites) 2087 Council Capital Programme 136 Total 4492

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Annual Position Statement - July 2020 South Kesteven District Council Contents

Executive Summary ...... i 1.0 Introduction ...... 1 2.0 Housing Delivery 2011-2020 ...... 4 3.0 Housing Land Requirements ...... 6 4.0 Housing Supply ...... 7 Strategic Large Sites & Local Plan Allocations ...... 8 Windfall Allowance ...... 10 Small Sites with Planning Permission ...... 11 South Kesteven Council’s Capital Programme Sites ...... 11 Brownfield Land Register Sites ...... 12 Covid-19 ...... 13 5.0 Five Year Housing Supply Calculation ...... 14

Tables

Table 1: Housing Delivery Rates from 1 April 2011 to 1 April 2020 ...... 5 Table 2: Affordable Housing Rates from 1 April 2011 to 1 April 2020 ...... 5 Table 3: Housing Requirement based on the requirement of 650 following an uplift from 625 in 2016, including shortfall and buffer of 20% ...... 6 Table 4: 5 Year Supply of Deliverable Housing Sites Summary ...... 7 Table 5: Evidence of a Proven Track Record of Delivery - 'Category B' Local Plan Sites ...... 9 Table 6: Small Site Windfall Completions (Ex