LOCAL HOUSING STRATEGY 2017-2022 Local Housing Strategy West Lothian Council 2017-2022 1 LOCAL HOUSING STRATEGY 2017-2022 Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 7 2. What We Said – What We Did ............................................................................................................. 8 3. What has changed since 2012? .......................................................................................................... 10 4. What will we do next? ......................................................................................................................... 12 4.1 West Lothian’s Housing Priorities 2017-2022..................................................................................................... 12 4.2 Link to National, Local and Housing Outcomes ................................................................................................ 13 5. Consultation ......................................................................................................................................... 14 6. Profile of West Lothian ....................................................................................................................... 18 6.1 Population ......................................................................................................................................................................... 18 6.1.1 A Growing Population ......................................................................................................................................... 18 6.1.2 An ageing population .......................................................................................................................................... 19 6.2 Households, Health and Economic Change ........................................................................................................ 20 6.3 Housing Market, Need and Supply ......................................................................................................................... 24 7. Priority One: Housing Supply and Place Making............................................................................ 26 7.1 Background ...................................................................................................................................................................... 27 7.2 West Lothian Local Development Plan (LDP)...................................................................................................... 27 7.3 Housing Need and Demand Assessment ............................................................................................................. 28 7.3.1 HNDA2 ....................................................................................................................................................................... 28 7.3.2 HNDA2: Preferred Scenarios ............................................................................................................................. 28 7.3.3 Housing Market Areas (HMA) .......................................................................................................................... 28 7.4 Housing Supply Targets .............................................................................................................................................. 29 7.4.1 Housing Supply Targets and SDP2 and HNDA2 ....................................................................................... 29 7.4.1 Market Housing...................................................................................................................................................... 30 7.5 Delivery Mechanisms for Affordable Housing .................................................................................................... 30 7.5.1 New Build Council Housing ............................................................................................................................... 30 7.5.2 Affordable Housing .............................................................................................................................................. 31 7.5.3 Affordable Housing Policy ................................................................................................................................. 32 7.5.4 Open Market Acquisition Scheme (OMAS) ................................................................................................. 32 7.5.5 Open Market Shared Equity .............................................................................................................................. 32 7.5.6 Provision of housing for people with particular needs .......................................................................... 32 7.5.7 Provision of Temporary Accommodation .................................................................................................... 33 7.6 Regeneration ................................................................................................................................................................... 33 7.6.1 Community Planning ........................................................................................................................................... 33 2 LOCAL HOUSING STRATEGY 2017-2022 7.6.2 Placemaking............................................................................................................................................................. 33 7.6.3 Rural Housing ......................................................................................................................................................... 34 7.6.4 Self Build ................................................................................................................................................................... 34 7.6.5 Community Safety ................................................................................................................................................. 35 7.6.6 Empty Homes .......................................................................................................................................................... 35 7.6.7 Town Centres and Regeneration ..................................................................................................................... 35 7.6.8 Housing led Regeneration ................................................................................................................................. 35 7.7 Constraints on Housing Delivery ............................................................................................................................. 36 7.7.1 Infrastructure ........................................................................................................................................................... 36 7.7.2 Funding ...................................................................................................................................................................... 36 7.7.3 Actions to Overcome Development Constraints ...................................................................................... 37 7.8 Housing Supply and Place Making - ACTION PLAN ........................................................................................ 38 7.9 Resource Plan .................................................................................................................................................................. 39 8. Priority Two: Preventing and Addressing Homelessness .............................................................. 40 8.1 Preventing and Addressing Homelessness .......................................................................................................... 41 8.2 Profile of homeless Applicants ................................................................................................................................. 41 8.3 Reasons for Homelessness ......................................................................................................................................... 42 8.3.1 Previous Locations of Homeless Applicants ............................................................................................... 42 8.4 Homeless Assessments ................................................................................................................................................ 42 8.4.1 Housing Support.................................................................................................................................................... 42 8.4.2 Final outcomes of Applications........................................................................................................................ 43 8.5 Temporary Accommodation and ARC Return .................................................................................................... 43 8.5.1 ARC Return ............................................................................................................................................................... 43 8.6 Sustainability .................................................................................................................................................................... 44 8.7 Repeat Applications ...................................................................................................................................................... 44 8.8 Developing the Approach to Homelessness