263 Housing Delivery Test Action Plan (HDT AP) 2020 PDF 394 KB
[Report of the Assistant Director for Planning, Building Standards and Sustainability. To be introduced by the Cabinet Member for Climate Change and Sustainability]
An Action Plan was published in August 2019. Haringey’s 2019 HDT measurement published by the Government in February 2020 showed a 55% achievement, resulting in the requirement for a new Action Plan to published by August 2020. Cabinet are being asked to adopt this new plan which set out actions the Council is taking to boost housing delivery. The HDT AP signposts corporate work across the Council to boost housing delivery, as well as provide an update on the previous Action Plan published.
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The Council were undertaking work on a new Local Plan to frame its housing ambitions, including a commitment to build 1,000 new Council Homes. The number of permissions agreed were what counted as the numbers of housing supplied within a given period.
The Council would continue to grant permissions in line with planning policies, manifesto commitments and in accordance with statutory timeframes, to ensure Haringey has the homes it needs. The Council would continue to work with developers to remove obstacles to delivery. The Cabinet Member expected the house building industry to also take action, as the under delivery of homes could not be solved by, or blamed, on the Council alone.
In response to questions from Cllr Cawley – Harrison and Cllr das Neves, the following information was noted:
· If the local Planning Authority’s delivery of housing fell below its housing target of 75%, the Council would not be able to prove that it its meeting its five-year housing target .The Council would move to a legal situation called a ‘tilted balance’ which means a higher planning test to follow if refusing a planning application with housing included. The effect of this for decision making was that the Council would need to give more weight to housing, meaning less consideration of other needs for the area that the Council were wanting to promote. This could also mean losing more planning appeals if enough consideration had not been given to housing requirements.