Monitoring

Annual Monitoring Report

To enable the Council to assess whether the Local Plan is performing effectively, and its objectives are being met, an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) is produced based on a set of key indicators which are aligned to the Plan's aims and objectives. The monitoring report will be as comprehensive as possible, providing the latest available and factual evidence. It will also show population change, changes in legislation, and other factors that impact the delivery of the Plan.

Five-year supply of housing land

To try to maintain the delivery of new homes, national policy in England requires local councils to supply deliverable sites, meaning sites with a high likelihood of housing being built in any given period. As with all local councils, we hold information on all housing sites that have been approved. These sites are monitored against developer projections, and our data is updated to reflect the number of houses built in the district. The number of houses any council aims to have built in its area is based on several criteria set by central government. 

The five-year housing land supply includes a trajectory which identifies the sites and number of houses expected to be delivered (built) each year over five years.

Policy HOU1 in the Local Plan details the supply of homes we will aim to deliver between 2024 and 2040.

Housing Delivery Test (HDT)

The Housing Delivery Test is an annual measurement of housing delivery in local authority areas (excluding the Broads National Park in Norfolk). The HDT looks at how many new homes have been delivered over the previous three years, and measures this against how many new homes should have been delivered. The results are published by the government each year and are expressed as a percentage of local housing need.