OFFICER DECISION 

Decision:   To approve the publication of the Council’s housing monitoring information at 1 April 2024

Decision Date:  15/07/2024

 

Type of Decision: Director    

Key

 

Non-Key

X

Portfolio Area that decision relates to:

Leader (inc Corporate Services, Policy, Strategy & Partnerships) 

 

Environment and Climate Emergency 

 

Deputy Leader and Economy

 

 

Finance, Performance, Major Projects & Equalities 

 

Children, Young People and Education 

 

Transport

 

Health, Wellbeing and Adults Social Care 

 

Housing, Planning & Safer Communities 

x

Background / Decision Summary: 

There is a statutory duty to monitor the Council’s development plan and to publish an annual monitoring on at least a yearly basis. Additionally, the National Planning Policy Framework requires local planning authorities to annually publish its supply of deliverable housing sites that is expects to come forward over the next 5 years. The information collected as part of the Strategic Planning Policy team’s ongoing monitoring has fed into the calculation of housing land supply. The measure of land supply is material to decisions on planning applications for new residential development in the City.   

 

The latest monitoring work for the year 2023/2024 has fed into the following reports:

-       Housing Land Supply Position Statement

-       Housing Monitoring Update May 2024; and,

-       Windfall Paper Update May 2024  

 

Previous publications of the Housing Monitoring Report are available via our Development Plan Monitoring webpage.

 

Options Considered:

 

Option A- publish reports on housing land supply and associated monitoring.

 

Option B – do not publish a housing land supply figure or associated monitoring reports.

Options Rejected: 

 Option B rejected on the basis the Council would not fulfil its duty to publish information that it is required to monitor. Such an approach would conflict with the spirit of operating a transparent basis for planning decisions that the NPPF requires.  

Consultation Process: 

All agents / landowners of sites identified in the land supply have been contacted and asked to provide information about delivery and completion expectations.

Implications

Crime & Disorder 

 

Equalities 

 

Highways 

 

Human Resources 

 

Legal 

 

ICT 

 

Financial 

 

Affordability 

 

Property 

 

Climate Change 

 

Health 

 

Other 

x

Environment 

 

Human Rights 

 

 

 

Implications Contact: 

Alison Cooke, Head of Strategic Planning Policy 

  

Level of Risk: Acceptable

Wards Affected 

All Wards 

X

Fishergate 

 

Holgate 

 

Rural West York 

 

Acomb 

 

Fulford & Heslington 

 

Hull Road 

 

Strensall 

 

Bishopthorpe 

 

Guildhall 

 

Huntington & New Earswick 

 

Westfield 

 

Clifton 

 

Haxby & Wigginton 

 

Micklegate 

 

Wheldrake 

 

Copmanthorpe 

 

Heworth 

 

Osbaldwick & Derwent 

 

 

 

Dringhouses & Woodthorpe 

 

Heworth Without 

 

Rawcliffe & Clifton 

 

 

 

 

Comments/Observations: 

 See attached reports for full details.

 

Decision: Approved the publication of reports on the Council’s housing land supply, annual housing monitoring update for 2023/2024 and Windfall Paper Update

  

Decision Made by: Tracey Carter

Contact Details: tracey.carter@york.gov.uk

On behalf of Chief Operating Officer

To be implemented by:  Alison Cooke, Head of Strategic Planning Policy 

On Completion – Signed off by: 

 

 

Tracey Carter

Director of Housing, Economy and Regeneration