Issue - items at meetings - City of York Housing Delivery Action Plan

The Corporate Director of Place to present a report which seeks approval for an update to the Planning Policy Housing Delivery Plan, prepared in response to the government’s publication of the 2021 Housing Delivery Test results, together with a Local Development Scheme setting out a planning work programme for the council from November 2022 to December 2024.

Resolved:

i. That the update to the Housing Delivery Action Plan at Annexes A and B be approved, and that the continued implementation of the Plan across corporate teams be supported.

Reason: To ensure that the council complies with its duties within the NPPF and PPG (setting out appropriate actions for the council to consider and explore in the short, medium and long term in an attempt to increase housing supply and delivery), and to fulfil the council’s commitment within the 2019-2023 Council Plan to ‘creating homes and world-class infrastructure’.

ii. That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director of Place to include within the Housing Delivery Action Plan the motion approved by Council on 22 October 2022 calling on Executive to action work concerning ‘controlling the concentration of short term and holiday lets’.

Reason: To acknowledge and reflect this stream of work in the Housing Delivery Action Plan.

iii. That authority be delegated to the Corporate Director of Place to sign off the publication version of the HDAP.

Reason: To agree the presentation of the publication version of the HDAP.

iv. That the Local Development Scheme Update at Annex C be approved.

Reason: To ensure that the Council Complies with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended by the Localism Act 2011).

The Corporate Director of Place presented a report which sought approval for an update to the Planning Policy Housing Delivery Plan, prepared in response to the government’s publication of the 2021 Housing Delivery Test results, together with a Local Development Scheme setting out a planning work programme for the council from November 2022 to December 2024.

It was confirmed that the plan had been considered by the Local Plan Working Group. The Executive welcomed the work of the Housing Delivery Action Plan and noted the consent that had been provided to private developers and the challenges in seeing homes built in the private sector with many sites having permission but not being built on. The Council’s policies for building on Council sites was discussed in relation to the Council’s housing waiting list, the percentage of affordable homes that should be on a site verses the cost of building and the use of private sales of Council built properties.