Annual Monitoring Report (AMR)

What is the Annual Monitoring Report?

The Annual Monitoring Report is a document which is produced by the Council each December, looking back at the previous financial year, from 1 April to 31 March. It has two key functions:

  1. The AMR monitors the performance of the policies of the adopted development plan against a previously defined set of indicators. Some of these indicators, called Core Output Indicators, are set by central government; these measure physical activities affected by the implementation of planning policies, such as levels of employment and housing development. Other indicators are set by the Council itself and are variously called Local, Contextual and Significant Effect indicators; these indicators allow the Council to monitor the locally important effects of its policies. If monitoring shows that the Council's policies are not having their desired effect, the AMR can trigger a review of the relevant policies, to allow the Council to address any problems.
  2. The second major function of the AMR is to monitor the Council's progress in producing the documents of its Local Development Framework, against the timetable in its Local Development Scheme.

Statement of Housing Land Supply

In September 2007, the Council published a Statement setting out the current situation within South Cambridgeshire with regard to the supply of housing land. This details both the number of houses built in the past monitoring year, from the beginning of April 2006 to the end of March 2007, and also the number of houses expected to be built in the coming years. Contained within the document is a new housing trajectory, updated from the one included in the Annual Monitoring Report 2005/2006, which shows the anticipated rate of house building in the District up to 2016.