Basingstoke and Deane Authority Monitoring Report 2018/19
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Basingstoke and Deane Authority Monitoring Report 2018/19 Contents Executive Summary .............................................................................................................. 4 Section 1: Introduction ....................................................................................................... 15 Section 2: Key contextual characteristics of Basingstoke and Deane ................................. 16 Section 3: Progress with planning documents (Local Development Scheme) .................... 18 Local Plan ....................................................................................................................... 18 Local Development Scheme (May 2019) ......................................................................... 18 Neighbourhood development plans ................................................................................. 19 Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) .................................................................. 20 Plan, strategies and policy documents............................................................................. 22 Article 4 Direction ............................................................................................................ 23 Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) ............................................................................... 24 Section 4: Duty to cooperate .............................................................................................. 26 Section 5: Housing policies ................................................................................................ 28 5.1 Housing delivery ....................................................................................................... 28 Number of homes built .......................................................................................... 28 Five year housing land supply position .................................................................. 31 Delivery of Local Plan allocations .......................................................................... 36 Homes built on previously developed land............................................................. 41 Windfall sites ......................................................................................................... 42 Regeneration sites ................................................................................................ 45 Density of residential development ........................................................................ 47 5.2 Location of new housing ............................................................................................ 48 New homes in the countryside ............................................................................... 48 New homes around nuclear installations ............................................................... 51 5.3 Type of housing delivered ......................................................................................... 52 Market housing mix and type ................................................................................. 52 Affordable housing ................................................................................................ 55 Housing for older people and people with support needs ...................................... 58 Self-build and custom housebuilding ..................................................................... 60 Gypsy and traveller accommodation ...................................................................... 64 5.4 Housing delivery through neighbourhood planning ................................................... 67 5.5 Housing design quality .............................................................................................. 74 1 Section 6: Environmental management and climate change ............................................... 77 6.1 Biodiversity, geodiversity and nature conservation ................................................... 77 New development in strategic gaps ....................................................................... 77 Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation (SINC) ............................................................................................. 78 Habitat enhancements........................................................................................... 79 Thames Basin Heaths Special Protection Area ..................................................... 81 6.2 Green infrastructure .................................................................................................. 82 6.3 Water quality ............................................................................................................ 83 6.4 Managing flood risk .................................................................................................. 84 6.5 Sustainable energy and water use ............................................................................ 86 6.6 Air quality .................................................................................................................. 87 6.7 Historic environment ................................................................................................. 88 Section 7: Economic development ...................................................................................... 90 7.1 Employment land and vacancy rates ........................................................................ 90 Change in amount of employment floorspace ........................................................ 90 Employment land availability ................................................................................. 93 Vacancy rates ....................................................................................................... 94 7.2 Job creation .............................................................................................................. 95 7.3 Basing View .............................................................................................................. 96 7.4 Retail ........................................................................................................................ 97 7.5 Rural economy ....................................................................................................... 101 7.6 Leisure ................................................................................................................... 105 Section 8: Infrastructure .................................................................................................... 106 8.1 Facilities and services ............................................................................................. 106 8.2 Delivery of new infrastructure ................................................................................. 111 Transport ............................................................................................................. 111 Education ............................................................................................................ 112 Sports .................................................................................................................. 112 Community facilities ............................................................................................ 112 Public open space and play ................................................................................. 112 Further information ............................................................................................................ 113 Appendices ....................................................................................................................... 114 Appendix 1: Progress with Neighbourhood Planning (at 1 April 2018) .......................... 114 Appendix 2: Withdrawn planning policy documents ...................................................... 115 Appendix 3: Adopted Local Plan 2011-2029 policies .................................................... 116 Appendix 4: Land Supply Position 2018/19 (Base date of 1 April 2019) ........................ 118 Appendix 5: List of abbreviations .................................................................................. 189 2 Appendix 6: Monitoring Made Neighbourhood Plans ..................................................... 190 Previously Monitored Neighbourhood Plans .................................................................. 191 Bramley Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 2) ............................................ 191 Oakley and Deane Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 2) ............................ 206 Overton Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 2) ............................................ 216 Newly Monitored Neighbourhood Plans: ........................................................................ 225 Sherborne St John Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 1) ........................... 225 Sherfield on Loddon Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 1) ......................... 231 St Mary Bourne Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 1) ................................ 241 Whitchurch Neighbourhood Plan (Monitoring Period 1) ....................................... 249 3 Executive Summary This Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) provides monitoring and statistical data for the borough for the period from 1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019. The purpose of the AMR is to monitor progress with the production of planning policy documents and consider the effectiveness of the council’s