Current (5-year) Housing Land Supply position and Local Plan status
Case reference FOI2019/00630
Published 12 July 2019
Request
I am writing to you regarding your current (5-year) housing land supply position and in regard to your current local plan (status):
1) a copy of your current 'five year housing land supply' position statement. If you cannot provide a current housing land supply position statement, please provide the most recent document illustrating your district's housing land supply position.
2) a copy of, or hyperlink, to your current (adopted) local plan and the date it was adopted.
3) The same information for any Site Allocations, Development Management Policy Plan, or similar "Local Plan part 2" document which forms part of the "local plan" alongside a core strategy (or similar).
4) If your plan is more than 5 years old, please let me know if this plan has been reviewed and is therefore seen as "up-to-date".
5) If your plan period has ended, or if the plan is more than five years old and has not been reviewed, please let me know if you are currently working on a plan review and/or if you are still using the policies of the plan, which already passed its plan period, for the determination of planning applications.
Response
1) A copy of your current 'five year housing land supply' position statement. If you cannot provide a current housing land supply position statement, please provide the most recent document illustrating your district's housing land supply position.
As a recently adopted plan and in accordance with paragraph 74 of the NPPF, the Council is able to demonstrate a five year housing land supply with an appropriate buffer. This supply is assessed as 5.93 years based on most recent evidence and referred to in the Local Plan Inspector's Report at paragraph 45.
2) A copy of, or hyperlink, to your current (adopted) local plan and the date it was adopted.
The Guildford Borough Local Plan: strategy and sites was adopted on 25 April 2019 and is available to view at www.guildford.gov.uk/newlocalplan/examination
3) The same information for any Site Allocations, Development Management Policy Plan, or similar "Local Plan part 2" document which forms part of the "local plan" alongside a core strategy (or similar).
The second part of the Local Plan (Development Management policies) has not yet been prepared.
4) If your plan is more than 5 years old, please let me know if this plan has been reviewed and is therefore seen as "up-to-date".
The existing Local Plan is dated 2003. Some policies have now been superseded by the newly adopted Local Plan. The policies that remain are still part of the development plan. These will be superseded entirely by the Development Management Local Plan.
5) If your plan period has ended, or if the plan is more than five years old and has not been reviewed, please let me know if you are currently working on a plan review and/or if you are still using the policies of the plan, which already passed its plan period, for the determination of planning applications.
See above.
6) Please provide the information in the form of the document including this information or a hyperlink to your website where the document can be found.
The Local Development Scheme is currently being reviewed.
Documents
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