Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance (copy enclosed).

The Council considered the report of the Director of Strategy, Performance and Governance setting out the Council’s Five-Year Housing Land Supply (5YHLS) position for publication.

The report provided background information regarding the Council’s agreed Working Group Terms of Reference to examine the 5YHLS methodology along with the work undertaken by the Working Group.

Members were advised that present methodology of the 5YHLS was robust and remained unchanged with the following exceptions:

·                  The Council would use the National Standard Methodology for calculating the housing need of the District until such time as a review of the Local Plan was submitted to the Planning Inspectorate.

·                  The undersupply had been removed from the calculations of the 5YHLS in line with using the Standard Method for calculating housing need.

·                  The slippage rate had been removed from the 5YHLS calculations but would remain under review year on year.

The Chairman moved the recommendations as set out in the report.  This was duly seconded and agreed.

RESOLVED

(i)                That the briefing paper attached as Appendix A to the report and its accompanying spreadsheets provides evidence that the Council can demonstrate a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide for 6.35 years’ worth of housing against the Council’s identified housing requirements.

(ii)              That the Five-Year Housing Land Supply position be approved and published on the Council`s website.