Amount of Housing

3.1 The local plan must allocate enough land to accommodate the amount of housing needed by 2031. The amount of housing is known as the Objectively Assessed Need (OAN) and is calculated based on population growth and population change.

3.2 The OAN identified for the Preferred Options Draft Local Plan was 12000 additional homes between 2011 and 2031. The OAN has since been revised to reflect the 2014 population and household projections and is now identified as 17,140 additional homes over the 20 year period until 2031.

3.3 It is proposed to amend policy SP11 as follows to reflect the most recent population and household projections:

Policy SP11 - Housing Provision

Provision is made for a total of 17,140 additional homes in the period to 2031, with notional delivery across the period as indicated below.

Period	2011-16	2016-21	2021-26	2026-31	Total
Additional homes	4,285	4,285	4,285	4,285	17,140

 

3.4 A number of allocated sites are of strategic importance for delivering the quantity and type and variety of homes required to deliver the strategy.  These are identified as Strategic Sites. The distribution of allocated housing land is illustrated in Table 2.

3.5 Within the total housing provision shown below the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment suggests capacity to deliver some 3017 dwellings exists by way of sites which have already received planning permission.  In addition some 1555 dwellings have already been delivered since the start of the plan period.

Table 2 - Total Housing Provision

 

Period	2011-2031
Strategic Sites (sites of 500+ dwellings)
Westwood	1,450
Birchington on Sea	1,000
Westgate on Sea	1,000
Manston Green	700
Land at Manston Court/Haine Road	700
Former Airport Site	2,500
Other Housing Sites/Areas
Land at Manston Road/Shottendane Road	250
Margate & Cliftonville	816
Ramsgate	793
Broadstairs & St Peters	304
Birchington on Sea	101
Westgate on Sea	36
Rural Settlements	375
Windfall Sites (based on 225 units per year, discounted for years 1-3 to avoid double counting)	2,700
Completed since 2011	1,555
Extant planning permissions	3,017
Empty Properties	540
Total	17,837