
Annual Monitoring Report, including Five Year Housing Land Supply
Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply calculations (1 November 2019)
The Greater Cambridge housing trajectory is used by us to calculate our five year housing land supply and also to demonstrate that anticipated housing delivery will meet or exceed our housing requirement.
We have reviewed and updated the Greater Cambridge housing trajectory and our five year housing land supply calculations, and our conclusion is that the Councils’ jointly have 5.3 years of housing land supply for the 2019-2024 five year period.
- Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply – Main Document (please note there is also an Errata)
- Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply – Annex:
In preparing the Greater Cambridge housing trajectory and five year housing land supply calculations, we carried out public consultation on the Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply – Main Document and Annex (September 2019) between 16 September and 14 October 2019.
The Statement of Consultation (November 2019) sets out how we have engaged with developers, landowners, housebuilders, and agents, and undertaken wider public consultation, in the preparation of the Greater Cambridge housing trajectory and five year housing land supply calculations. The Statement of Consultation includes a summary of the representations received, the Councils’ assessment of the issues raised, and where necessary a list of any modifications made.
As the Councils can demonstrate a five year housing land supply for Greater Cambridge, our planning policies in the adopted Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire Local Plans 2018 will be given full weight in decisions on planning applications, unless there are other material considerations to take into account. This will be relevant for any planning applications that are being considered from 1 November 2019.
Housing Delivery Test
The Housing Delivery Test (HDT) was introduced in 2018 and national planning policy and guidance sets out the consequences of different results of the HDT.
There are no consequences from the HDT results for Cambridge, however for South Cambridgeshire a HDT Action Plan needed to be prepared.
The HDT Action Plan for South Cambridgeshire sets out the:
- functional relationship between Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire, consistent with the joint housing trajectory and joint five year housing land supply approach confirmed in the adopted Local Plans, reflecting the joint development strategy across Greater Cambridge;
- existing joint agreements between the two Councils that are relevant to the HDT; and
- Councils’ case for the HDT to be considered jointly.
The HDT Action Plan includes as Appendix B a Statement of Common Ground between the two Councils that formalises their agreement that they should be considered jointly for the purposes of the HDT.
Annual Monitoring Reports
South Cambridgeshire Authority Monitoring Report 2017-2018 (January 2019) – the Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply section of this Authority Monitoring Report has been superseded by the publication of the Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Housing Land Supply: Main Document and Annex (1 November 2019)
We produce an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR, or Authority Monitoring Report) every year that looks back at the previous monitoring year from 1 April to 31 March. It contains information on the performance of the individual planning policies set out in the adopted Local Plan, but also provides a general portrait of the social, economic and environmental conditions in the district. The AMR also assesses the Council's progress in producing its Local Plan and Area Action Plans against the timetable set out in the Local Development Scheme.
The AMR for 2018-2019 will cover the whole of Greater Cambridge and will be published in late 2019 / early 2020.
Previous Reports
Historic Annual Monitoring Reports and Five Year Supply Updates
- Update on South Cambridgeshire’s Five Year Housing Land Supply (21 May 2018): On the basis of this update, SCDC considers that it can demonstrate a five year housing land supply of 5.0 years for the period 2018-2023. From 21 May 2018, for the purposes of making decisions on planning applications, the Council’s position is that it can demonstrate a five year housing land supply, based on the Sedgefield methodology of calculation and applying a 20% buffer.
- Annual Monitoring Report 2016-2017 (December 2017)
- Joint Housing Land Supply Update (November 2017) (RD/AD/500): The Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire housing trajectories and supporting site commentaries were published in a joint update ahead of the Annual Monitoring Reports 2016-2017 and this update was used to inform the Local Plan Main Modifications concerning five year housing land supply.
- Annual Monitoring Report 2015-2016 (December 2016) (RD/AD/480)
Errata: Greater Cambridge Housing Trajectory and Five Year Supply (March 2017) (RD/AD/481) - Annual Monitoring Report 2014-2015 (January 2016) (RD/AD/460)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2013-2014 (Parts 1 & 2) (March 2015) (RD/AD/371)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2013-2014 (Part 1) (November 2014) (RD/AD/370)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2012-2013: Update on 5-Year Supply of Housing Sites (July 2014): In his decisions on two recent planning appeals in Waterbeach in June 2014, a planning inspector has concluded that the district cannot currently demonstrate a five year supply of land for building new houses. This is a requirement set by national planning policy to help boost housing supply. These decisions will affect how we make decisions on planning applications for new homes until we do have such a supply, although all housing proposals will still have to show they are sustainable development against the tests in the National Planning Policy Framework. The need to demonstrate a five year supply will be a factor in the examination of our new Local Plan.
- Annual Monitoring Report 2012-2013: Update on 5-Year Supply of Housing Sites (April 2014)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2012-2013: Update on 5-Year Supply of Housing Sites (March 2014)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2012-2013 (February 2014)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2011-2012: Update on 5-Year Supply of Housing Sites (December 2013)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2011-2012: Update on 5-Year Supply of Housing Sites (July 2013)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2011-2012 (December 2012)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2010-2011 (January 2012)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2009-2010 (December 2010)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2008-2009 (December 2009)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2007-2008 (December 2008)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2006-2007 (December 2007)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2005-2006 (December 2006)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2004-2005 (December 2005)
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