amr annual monitoring report 2009-2010 city planning Executive Summary This Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) provides an update on development activity in the City. The AMR also provides information on the supply of land and measures performance against national and council policies during the monitoring year 2009/10. The population of Brighton & Hove continues to rise within the compact City. The City has a high proportion of young working adults and has managed, so far, to weather the worst effects of the economic conditions affecting the country. House prices recovered in the monitoring year after falling in 2008/09 in response to the downturn of the national housing market. Despite the current economic conditions the City managed to deliver 380 additional dwellings in the reporting year which is 48 units more than estimated in the housing trajectory in the 2008/09 AMR. It includes the completion of 144 units at the Ocean Hotel Development in Saltdean, 48 units at the Ebenezer Chapel site on Richmond Parade and 38 at 50-52 New Church Road. Although the completion figure is lower than achieved in previous years the average of 601 completions a year over the last five years is still a healthy completion rate which had continued to exceed the South East Plan housing target of 570 units per annum. All of the new residential units were completed on previously developed land. One hundred affordable units were delivered through the completion of developments of 10 units or over which represents, via such developments, an average provision of affordable housing in excess of the 40% target contained in council policy. The number of residential units given planning permission was similar to the previous monitoring year. In 2009/10 147 residential planning applications were approved, which could potentially provide 424 residential units to the City. 97% of all residential planning applications approved in 2009/10 were designed to lifetime homes standard or lifetime homes standard was a condition of approval. All new commitments for 10 or more dwellings included a proportion of dwellings designed to the 'wheelchair accessible standard'. The provision of business floorspace was also encouraging. There was a net increase of 1,115m² business floorspace in the monitoring year. This figure comprises a net gain in B1a office use (1,248m²) and mixed business use (1,020m²). There was also a net increase of 3,934m² floorspace of town centre uses across the Local Authority area. Employment land available in the City rose to 44.90ha, including 2.26ha of floorspace on unallocated sites through planning permissions. 34,750m² office floorspace on land adjacent to Amex House was both approved and commenced in the monitoring year. During 2009/10 there was a net gain of 1,225m² retail floorspace and 1,588m² of restaurant floorspace and the 11,498m² of potential retail floorspace given planning permission in 2009/10 suggests a healthy outlook for new retail developments in the City. Shop vacancy rates increased in both the Brighton and Hove shopping centres over the monitoring year although the overall rate for the whole City was 8.8% at the end of 2009/10 which is well below the national average. There were 109,195 tonnes of municipal waste disposed of in 2009/10 with a reduction of almost 5,000 tonnes of waste going to landfill over the previous year. INDEX 1. Introduction 1 2. Data Collection 2 3. Local Development Scheme Implementation 3 4. Implementing the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) 7 5. Monitoring Indicators 8 5.1 Contextual Indicators 9 5.2 Core Output Indicators 37 5.3 Local Output Indicators 47 5.4 Significant Effects Indicators 53 5.5 Development Control Performance 63 6. Summary of Policy Performance 64 7. Saving Policies 70 Appendices 71 Index of Charts and Tables Chart Title Page No. Chart 1 Mortality Ratio 1999-2008 13 Chart 2 Brighton & Hove PCT Waiting List Numbers 2003-2009 16 Average House Price of Properties in Brighton & Hove and the South East, Chart 3 25 April 2009- March 2010 Chart 4 Number of Brighton & Hove Buses Passenger Journeys per Year 36 Table Title Page No Table 1 Resident Population mid Year Estimates: All Persons 9 Brighton & Hove Population Density in Comparison with Selected Unitary Table 2 10 Authorities and Local Districts Resident Population mid Year Estimate 2008 Percentage by Broad Age 11 Table 3 Band Table 4 Civil Partnership Numbers between 2006 and 2009 11 Table 5 Resident Population Estimates by Ethnic Group (Percentages), June 2007 12 Table 6 Life Expectancy at Birth, by Sex, in Years; 2006-2008 12 Table 7 Birth Rate: Live births by Area of Usual Residence of Mother, 2008 13 Underweight, Healthy Weight, Overweight and Obese Children, 2008- Table 8 14 2009 Table 9 Smoking and Health 2008/09 15 Table 10 Alcohol Related Hospital Admissions 2008/09 15 Adult Substance Abuse Deaths 2009 by South East Strategic Health Table 11 16 Authority and Primary Care Trusts Table 12 Indices of Deprivation 2007: Brighton & Hove Local Authority Summary 18 Levels of Employment and Unemployment; Brighton & Hove, South East Table 13 19 and Great Britain (2009/10) Table 14 Average Full Time Earnings per Residence 2009 20 Table 15 Average Full Time Earnings per Workplace 2009 20 Active Enterprises, Births, Deaths of Businesses in Brighton & Hove 2004- Table 16 20 2008 Employee Jobs by Industry in Brighton & Hove Compared to the Table 17 21 Proportion of each in South East and Great Britain 2008 Table 18 Student Population for Academic Year 2008/09 22 Table 19 Number of Teachers and Pupil: Teacher Ratio 2007-2009 22 Index of Charts and Tables cont/d. Table Title Page No. Percentage of Pupils at the end of Key Stage 4 Achieving 5 or more Table 20 22 GCSEs A*-C Grades (or equivalent) Percentage of Housing Occupancy Types in Brighton & Hove Compared Table 21 23 to Regional and National Figures 2006/07 Household Price by Type - Brighton and Hove Council (April 2009 - March Table 22 24 2010) Recorded crime in Brighton & Hove for Seven Key Offences and BCS Table 23 26 Comparator Between 2008/09 and 2009/10 Police Officer and Community Support Officer Strength in Brighton & Table 24 27 Hove and Sussex, March 2010 Table 25 Trip Expenditure by Sector in Brighton & Hove (£’s millions) 27 Table 26 Number of Staying Trips by Accommodation 2009 28 Selected Sustainable Consumption and Waste Reduction Performance Table 27 29 Indicators for Brighton and Hove Table 28 SSSI Condition; Condition of Brighton & Hove SSSI Units 30 Nature Reserve Condition; Condition of Local Nature Reserves in Brighton Table 29 30 and Hove when Last Assessed Results of Brighton & Hove Automatic Monitoring for Nitrogen Dioxide Table 30 31 Comparison with Annual Mean Objective Table 31 Road Transport Energy Consumption; Proportion of Overall Fuel Use 2008 31 Table 32 Average Electricity Consumption per Consumer in 2008 (kWh) 32 Table 33 Average Gas Consumption per Consumer in 2008 (kWh) 32 Table 34 Bathing Water Quality 32 Table 35 The Sustainable Cities Index 2010: Brighton & Hove 33 Estimated Traffic Volume for All Motor Vehicles 2006 - 2009 in Vehicle Table 36 34 Miles Table 37 Average Accessibility to Services in Brighton & Hove 35 Table 38 Reported Killed or Seriously Injured Casualties by Road User Type 35 The Amount of Shop Front Applications Submitted in 2009/10 by Type Table 39 54 and Decision How Comprehensive a Site Waste Management Plan Will Be Produced Table 40 54 and Implemented by the Developer? Table 41 Trees and Development Sites SPD Monitoring Indicators 2005/06-2009/10 56 Index of Charts and Tables cont/d. Table Title Page No. Table 42 Advertisements SPD Monitoring Indicators 2006/07- 2009/10 57 Baseline Data for Quantums of Development in London Road Masterplan Table 43 58 Area Table 44 NO2 Concentrations in London Road Masterplan Area 2007-2009 59 Table 45 Monthly Traffic Flow in London Masterplan Area 2009/10 59 Table 46 Monthly Cycle Flow in London Road Masterplan Area 2009/10 59 Open Space Provision in 2006 as Published in Open Space Sports and Table 47 60 Recreation Study 2009 Table 48 Number and Area of Designated Sites in Brighton & Hove 61 Table 49 Development Control Performance against BVPI Targets 63 Table 50 Residential Completions by Type of Development 2009/10 65 Table 51 Residential Completions by Windfall or Allocated Sites 2005/06-2009/10 66 Table 52 Residential Developments, Over 10 Units, Completed in 2009/10 66 Residential Completions, Containing and Element of Affordable Housing Table 53 66 2009/10 Table 54 Change in Floorspace of ‘A’ Use Classes 2009/10 67 Table 55 Potential Floorspace from 2009/10 Retail Permissions 68 Tables in Appendix Table Title Page No. Indicators BD1: Total additional employment floorspace – by type, BD2: Table 1 Total employment floorspace on previously developed land – by type, 71 BD3: Employment land available – by type Indicator B4: Total floorspace for ‘town centre uses’ in Town centre areas Table 2 71 and the Local authority area. Table 3 Indicator H1: Plan period and housing targets 72 Indicator H3: New and converted dwellings - on previously developed Table 4 72 land Table 5 Indicator H4 Net Additional pitches (Gypsy and Travellers) 72 Table 6 Indicator H5: Gross affordable housing completions 72 Table 7 Indicator H2: Net Additional Dwellings 73 Tables in Appendix cont/d. Table Title Page No. Indicator E1: Number of planning permissions granted contrary to Table 8 75 Environment Agency advice Table 9 Indicator E2: Change in areas of biodiversity importance 75 Indicator E3: The number of applications, approved in 2009/10, providing ? 3 units, indicating, via the sustainability checklist whether or not CO2 emissions will be saved via on-site low and zero carbon (LZC) energy 76 Table 10 generating technologies, by how much and the number of these applications providing an estimate for the installed capacity of the technologies in the development.