Housing strategy and provision Flashcards
(23 cards)
What are the provisions set out within the NPPF 2024 to increase the supply of housing?
Standard Method - to plan for the minimum local housing need
LPAs need a 5YHLS if their plan is out of date.
What is a SHLAA?
What is a SHMA?
What is a Call for Sites?
What are the revisions in the NPPF 2024 to simplify the planning system?
Housing land supply - Clear rules on when 5YHLS and HDT apply.
Monitoring - single HDT system; clarity on delivery expectations.
Developer certainty - Less risk of challenge where plans are up to date.
What is the difference of affordable and market homes?
Affordable housing is subsidised in some way to ensure it’s available to people who cannot afford market prices.
Market homes are sold at full market value.
What are the different affordable tenures?
Shared ownership
Social rented
Affordable rented
What is shared ownership?
Buy a share (10–75%) of the home, rent the rest at below-market rate.
What is affordable rent?
Up to 80% of market rent. Often used in Housing Association stock.
What is Social Rent?
Lowest-cost rent – typically 50-60% of market rent. Managed by councils or housing associations.
What are First Homes?
New-build homes sold to first-time buyers at a minimum 30% discount from market value.
What was Wiltshire’s housing uplift following the revised NPPF 2024?
183.85%
How did you identify suitable settlements in Wiltshire?
I reviewed Wiltshire Council’s settlement hierarchy, focusing on Principal Settlements, Market Towns, and Local Service Centres, excluding Large and Small Villages due to limited capacity.
cross-referenced this with Wiltshire’s Revised Spatial Strategy 2023 and Housing Needs Assessment 2023, which, although predating the updated NPPF, highlighted the council’s growth priorities. This analysis informed my recommendations to my director.
What is a Housing Needs Assessment?
It identifies the scale and mix of housing needed across an area.
Does a Housing Needs Assessment give an indication of where growth would be directed?
No. It wouldn’t identify locations but more analyse the supply and demand required for an area.
How did you understand the housing demand at Billingshurst?
I consulted housebuilders to assess upcoming new-build supply and potential market saturation. The feedback was that a further outlet at Billingshurst would be of interest.
What were the main competing sites at Billingshurst?
The main competition was from successful draft allocations and sites similair to ours that had been excluded at Regulation 19.
What did the Kilsby Local Housing Need Assessment conclude?
It set out the demographic and subsequent units required for the village that the report deems proportionate. It also set out a prescribed housing mix that development should adhere to. This included figures for bungalows.
What is an Issues and Options consultation?
It’s an early stage in the Local Plan-making process, where a local planning authority asks the public and stakeholders for input on the key planning challenges and possible ways to address them.
What is the affordable housing % in Eastleigh for the site at Greenacres?
40%
What is a collaboration agreement?
It sets out the terms on which multiple parties will cooperate in the promotion and development of land, including how costs, responsibilities, risks, and profits will be shared.
What is a Planning Performance Agreement?
A PPA is a voluntary agreement between an applicant and the LPA that sets out a project-specific timetable, key milestones, and the resources required to process a planning application.
What were the community facilities planned for at Eastleigh?
The issies and options document didn’t specify but along with the adjacent landowners layout, this comprised open space, sports facilities, a potential school and community center focusing on the residential areas of the Option Area.
