Local Plan Monitoring

Housing land supply, annual monitoring report, shopping occupancy and Infrastructure Funding Statement

Five-year housing land supply

Following a change to national guidance in December 2024, we are now required to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply (National Planning Policy Framework, paragraph 72).

This reverses a national policy change made in 2023. Prior to this, we regularly published five year housing land supply reports:

Annual monitoring reports

Shopping Occupancy Survey

This document sets out our development of a policy approach to maintaining and enhancing the functions of town, local, district and neighbourhood centres in the Borough.

The survey work was undertaken in January 2020 by visiting all of the shopping centres and parades in the Borough.

Town Centres, Local Centres and Shopping Parades – Details of Occupancy

Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS)

We are required to produce an Infrastructure Funding Statement (IFS) following changes which were introduced through the Community Infrastructure Regulations in 2019. The IFS provides a summary of the developer contributions which are collected and spent by the Council.