Housing

(asked on 7th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether the default measure of housing supply derived under the standardised methodology can be bypassed where a Local Plan has been submitted under the transitional arrangements which meets its objectively assessed need; whether increased weight can be attributed to the emerging plan in respect of a five-year housing land supply; and if he will make a statement.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 13th March 2019

Local planning authorities who submitted their local plans by 24 January this year are not bound to use the standard method. Instead their assessment of housing need should have been generated using policy in the previous National Planning Policy Framework. Under this, authorities were still expected to identify their full housing needs.

The revised Framework retains the pre-existing policy that weight may be given to emerging policies (including the land supply policies) according to how advanced the plan is, the extent to which there are any unresolved objections and the degree of consistency between the emerging policies and national planning policy. In the case of plans submitted during the transitional arrangement, these are policies in the previous framework.

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