This report seeks agreement of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment as part of the Council’s evidence base for the preparation of the new Local Plan and as a basis to inform S106 negotiations in relation to affordable housing and housing type, mix and tenure.

In accepting the recommendations, Cabinet will approve and recommend to Council that that the Strategic Housing Market Assessment is approved for the purposes of  evidence base for Hambleton Local Plan; that the Objectively Assessed Need in the Strategic Housing Market Assessment provides the basic requirement for assessing five year supply and considered in the determination of applications for housing until a Housing Target is developed as part of the Local Plan; that additional work is carried out to develop scenarios for economic growth, using the established Objectively Assessed Need as a base, in order to determine the final Local Plan housing target and that this is reported to Cabinet; and that the Strategic Housing Market Assessment will be used as a basis to inform negotiations on planning applications, both with respect to the mix and type of market housing and affordable housing contributions including the type, mix and tenure.

The subject of the decision:

This report sought agreement of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment as part of the Council’s evidence base for the new Local Plan and as a basis to inform negotiations on planning applications in relation to affordable housing and housing type, mix and tenure.  The conclusions and recommendations of the Assessment were attached at Annex A of the report and a copy of the full report was available in the Members’ Lounge.

Alternative options considered:

None.

The reason for the decision:

Cabinet was satisfied that the Strategic Housing Market Assessment was sufficient to provide an assessment of future needs for market and affordable housing for the Local Plan period to 2035, providing the Objectively Assessed Need for housing for the new Local Plan.

THE DECISION:

That Cabinet approves and recommends to Council that:-

(1)     the Strategic Housing Market Assessment is approved for the purposes of the evidence base for Hambleton Local Plan;

(2)     the Objectively Assessed Need in the Strategic Housing Market Assessment provides the basic requirement for assessing the five year housing supply and be considered in the determination of applications for housing until a Housing Target is developed as part of the Local Plan;

(3)     that additional work is carried out to develop scenarios for economic growth, using the established Objectively Assessed Need as a base, in order to determine the final Local Plan Housing Target and that this is reported to Cabinet; and

(4)     the Strategic Housing Market Assessment be used as a basis to inform negotiations on planning applications, both with respect to the mix and type of market housing and affordable housing contributions including the type, mix and tenure.