Housing supply and delivery
Guidance on 5 year housing land supply and Housing Delivery Test.
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It applies to local planning authorities in a plan-making authority area: non-metropolitan districts, development corporations with plan-making and decision-making powers, metropolitan boroughs and London boroughs. The Housing Delivery Test does not apply to National Park Authorities, the Broads Authority and development corporations without (or not exercising) both plan-making and decision-making functions. Paragraph: 028 Reference ID: 68-037-20190722 Revision date: 22 07 2019
Requirements
Housing requirement figures identified in adopted strategic housing policies should be used for calculating the 5 year housing land supply figure where: the plan was adopted in the last 5 years, or the strategic housing policies have been reviewed within the last 5 years and found not to need updating. In other circumstances the 5 year housing land supply will be measured against the area’s local housing need calculated using the standard method. Paragraph: 005 Reference ID: 68-005-20190722 Revision date: 22 07 2019 Which strategic housing policies are used to calculate the 5 year housing land supply where there is more than one strategic housing requirement policy for an area? Where there is a conflict between adopted strategic housing requirement policies (for example if a new spatial development strategy supersedes an adopted local plan), the most recently adopted policies will need to be used for the purposes of calculating 5 year housing land supply, in accordance with Section38 (
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