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Report of Councillor S Pickering, Portfolio Holder for Environment and Place.

RESOLVED that:

(1)       the annual assessment of the five-year land supply of deliverable sites for housing be noted.

(2)       the five-year land supply of deliverable sites for housing be published on the Council website.

REASONS FOR DECISION – To ensure Members were aware of the Council’s latest position on the Five Year Housing Land Supply, prior to publication of the information on the Council’s website.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND REJECTED – National Planning Guidance requires local planning authorities to publish annually a Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement. Failure to produce this statement would make the Council vulnerable to unplanned development proposals contrary to the adopted Local Plan.

This was not a Key Decision and so can be implemented with immediate effect by officers.

Cabinet considered a report which advised of the latest five-year housing land supply position in the District prior to the publication of the information on the Council’s website. 

The Council’s statement on the Five Year Housing Land Supply for April 2025 was attached to the report at Appendix 1.  This included information on housing delivery since 2014, which demonstrated that the Council had achieved an average annual completion rate of 444 dwellings, 34% above the annual target. Housing completions over the past three years also demonstrated over delivery in relation to the Government’s Housing Delivery Test, which meant the Council was only required to include a 5% buffer in the five year housing land supply.

The report detailed the calculations in respect of the supply position and concluded that the Council’s housing land supply position at 1 April 2025 was 5.32 years’ supply. 

RESOLVED that:

(1)       the annual assessment of the five-year land supply of deliverable sites for housing be noted.

(2)       the five-year land supply of deliverable sites for housing be published on the Council website.

REASONS FOR DECISION – To ensure Members were aware of the Council’s latest position on the Five Year Housing Land Supply, prior to publication of the information on the Council’s website.

OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED AND REJECTED – National Planning Guidance requires local planning authorities to publish annually a Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement. Failure to produce this statement would make the Council vulnerable to unplanned development proposals contrary to the adopted Local Plan.