Agenda item - Chair's Communications

92.1    The Chair reminded the Committee that Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) was proposed to come in on 1 June 2020. The Planning officers will be determining as many applications as possible before that date. The consequence will be that additional Planning Committee meetings will need to be held to discuss the applications during March and April.

92.2    It was noted that the Tourism, Equalities Communities & Culture (TEC) Committee meeting on 16 January 2020 agreed the provision of a viability consultancy advice to the Planning service. A Citywide Article 4 Direction regarding Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMO) was agreed and will be implemented on 3 June 2020. The Updated Design Guide for Extensions

and Alterations SPD was also adopted. Options were fully considered during the preparation of the draft City Plan Part

Two and these have informed the detail and content of the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

92.3    The Chair invited Nicola Hurley (Planning Manager) to address the committee.

92.4    Nicola Hurley stated: We have now published the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) Update 2019. This presents the updated five year housing land supply position as at 1 April 2019.

92.5    The five year housing requirement is calculated based on the annualised housing provision figure set out in City Plan Part One (Policy CP1). The five year requirement has been further adjusted to include the shortfall in housing delivery over the period 2014-2019 (844 units) and a 20% buffer has been added as required by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) – due to the Council achieving only 70% delivery against the Government’s Housing Delivery Test last year. 

92.6    The resulting adjusted five year requirement is 6,149 residential units over the five year period 2019-2024. The 2019 SHLAA Update identifies a potential housing supply of 4,949 residential units for the 2019-2024 period. This results in an overall five year housing shortfall of 1,200 units (equivalent to 4.0 years of housing supply).

92.7    This is a slight reduction in the provision of last year’s supply of 4.5 years and is one element of consideration in the balancing of applications proposing the creation of additional residential units.