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Housing need consultation: 9 things you need to know
Nine things you need to know about this week's consultation on housing need, including an 'ambition' to publish a revised National Planning Policy Framework by Spring 2018, proposals to strengthen cross-boundary planning, changes intended to streamline viability assessments and plans to make section 106 agreements more transparent.
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Coronavirus impact set 'to become key issue in arguments over five-year land supplies'
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Government to review housing need assessment method to boost building in urban areas
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Jenrick announces housing need method review and says government is 'exploring zoning'
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The 22 councils that have to produce an 'action plan' for the first time under the 2019 housing delivery test
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The 24 councils whose housing land supply targets have decreased under the 2019 delivery test
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The councils that are being sanctioned under the 2019 housing delivery test
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Maidstone seeks opt-out from standard housing need method
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Council to legally challenge inspector's housing target change following land supply examination
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Berks plan proposes 15,000-home garden town and target below standard method
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'Self-certified' Surrey plan review 'should be given no weight', says QC
Latest standardised housing need analysis
Data blog: How much of a threat does the standard method for assessing need pose to the green belt?
The publication earlier this month of the details of the government's proposed standard methodology for assessing housing need immediately prompted warnings that the formula would lead to the loss of land from the green belt.
Data blog: Why standard housing need method means plan-makers are in for a bumpy ride
The government's proposed approach to assessing housing need means that the outputs of its proposed formula could change dramatically during the preparation of a local plan, an analysis by Planning indicates.
Mapped: How consultation formula would affect local assessments of housing need
Click through to view an interactive map showing how the outputs of the government's proposed standard methodology for assessing housing need would differ from current assessments of local need.
Why the timetable for the new need assessment method is in doubt
The delay to the promised consultation draft of the National Planning Policy Framework has set back plans to introduce a standard method for local housing need assessments.
Three messages for ministers on standard method proposals
Responses to the government's proposed standard approach to assessing local housing need have welcomed the proposal as enabling a speedier process of plan preparation, but there are concerns that it fails to take account of aspirations for economic growth in parts of the country.
Is it about to get harder for local planning authorities to plan for more housing growth?
Observers are concerned that in some areas the combination of falling population projections and the outputs of the government's proposals standard formula for assessing housing need could assist those authorities that want to reduce their housing targets.
Latest Standardised Housing Need Comment
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Doubts remain about whether the Tories have the resolve to drive up delivery, by Richard Garlick
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New policies offer food for thought despite delay on housing model, by Bryan Johnston
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Success of housing need method rests on plan to strengthen cooperation between neighbours, by Jamie Carpenter
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Housing need consultation will be a test of the government's mettle, by Jamie Carpenter
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