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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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Latest standardised housing need news
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Local Plan Watch: Council adopts plan proposing 2,000 homes on green belt despite falling housing need
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Oxfordshire councils scrap joint county-wide plan following failure to agree on housing need
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Two councils ask PINS to confirm their housing land supply positions
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Further work on plan needed to demonstrate five year supply, says inspector
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Updated: Tory leadership hopeful pledges to scrap ‘top-down Stalinist housing targets’
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Bill allowing local authorities to determine short-term housing need progresses to committee stage
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Council says its draft plan will make area a ‘less attractive place to live’ due to ‘brutal housing targets’
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Council blames local plan delay on ‘too much’ national policy uncertainty
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Impact of housing need uplift could be a ‘double disaster’ for city, Betts tells minister
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Proposal to scrap housing land supply requirement could lead to ‘deluge’ of speculative applications, MP warns
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.
The Housing Land Supply Index: every English council’s published position, plus document links
Planning's June update of councils' housing land supply positions reveals that nearly a third of the country’s planning authorities have either published a new housing land supply position or had a figure decreed for their area at appeal since the last iteration of our Housing Land Supply Index.
Local Plan Watch: Council adopts plan after nine years of preparation, despite housing shortfall
A council has adopted a local plan after a nine-year preparation process, despite identifying a 500-home shortfall in its planned housing supply.
What the proposal to scrap the five-year housing land supply target for up-to-date plans will mean for councils and developers
The government’s proposed removal of the five-year housing land requirement supply for councils with up-to-date local plans could see almost half of all English local authorities benefit, Planning research suggests. Observers say the move will incentivise more authorities to get plans in place, but examining inspectors are likely to take a tougher line on the deliverability of proposed housing targets and site allocations.
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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Legal viewpoint: Court confirms proper approach to calculating five-year housing land supply
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Letter: A council’s local plan challenge reveals a lack of will to grapple with housing numbers
- Principal Development Officer (Planning Control) Bolton Council Bolton, Greater Manchester
- Development Officer - Planning Control (Career Grade) Bolton Council Bolton, Greater Manchester
- Corporate Head of Planning & Regulatory Services Winchester City Council Winchester, Hampshire
- Head of Strategic Planning Oxfordshire County Council. Oxford, Oxfordshire
- Operations Manager Rushcliffe Borough Council West Bridgford, Nottingham
- Service Manager Rushcliffe Borough Council West Bridgford, Nottingham
- Career Graded Planning Policy Officer Cherwell DC Banbury, Oxfordshire
- Development Management Team Leader Varnom Ross Central England
- Senior Planning Officer Varnom Ross Surrey
- Planning Services Manager Varnom Ross South West
