Strategic Housing Investment Plan 2010 - Falkirk Council

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Housing Need and Demand Assessment 3.7 For the purpose of this year’s SHIP, the Newhaven Report (2007) remains the most up to date source of information in relation to housing need. This report indicated that the Falkirk Council area has an annual average shortfall of 145 affordable units over the 10 years to 2016. The table below indicates the shortfall/surpluses identified by Newhaven by sub market area and how they should be prioritised for future investment. Table 3: 10 year annual average shortfall/surplus Housing Needs Assessment Areas Wider Falkirk (Larbert/ Stenhousemuir & Rural North, Falkirk) Annual Average Shortfall (-)/ Surplus (+) of Affordable Housing Falkirk Council Priorities -73 1 Larbert/ Stenhousemuir & Rural North -93 1a Falkirk +19 1b Polmont & Rural South -67 2 Denny & Bonnybridge -42 3 Bo’ness -19 4 Grangemouth +56 5 Total -145 Source: Newhaven 2009 (subject to rounding) 3.8 The Newhaven Research (2007) indicates that the Larbert/Stenhousemuir/Rural North areas have a chronic shortfall of affordable housing and there may be a case for providing options for people to meet their housing needs in other areas. 3.9 Newhaven noted that “Although there is likely to be a policy preference to seek to address housing needs in the local area in which it first appears, it should be borne in mind that some households resolve their requirement for housing by moving to areas they can afford. As such there may be a case for considering ways to direct demand for social rented housing within the Wider Falkirk area to the Falkirk sub area. In the longer term, there may also be a case of seeking to encourage prospective social rented tenants to consider accommodation in Grangemouth over the coming 10 years.” 5 3.10 The type and size of properties that people are looking for may be available in other areas therefore it is important to enable people in housing need to have the choice to consider these options. This SHIP therefore outlines new build options in Falkirk which may be of interest to people from Stenhousemuir/Larbert/Rural North. As noted earlier, the Council is currently developing a “Housing Options” approach to meeting local housing need and a new, choice-based, housing allocations policy which sets clear priorities based on an assessment of housing need (and offers applicants a significant degree of choice in how they seek to meet their need) was implemented in January 2010. 5 Newhaven 2007 Falkirk Council Affordable Housing Needs 20
3.11 Under the new arrangements all applicants are able to see exactly what is available for social rent in the area and it is anticipated that this will result in applicants recognising that they may need to cross local boundaries in order to be able to obtain the type of property that meets their housing needs/aspirations within a reasonable timescale. Evidence from the first nine months of the new arrangements suggests that around a third of housing applicants are prepared to move across perceived local boundaries in order to meet their housing need. 3.12 The development of the “housing options” approach to meeting housing need is a key part of the Homelessness Strategy approved in December 2008. This Strategy and the new Allocations Policy recognise that demand for affordable rented housing outstrips supply in the area and seeks to give those in housing need the help and information they need to allow them to make reasoned choices. Nevertheless, increasing the supply of new homes is likely to be the only way in which the housing needs of a growing population is going to be met in the longer term and this is the key issue for this SHIP. 3.13 The Newhaven Research (2007) indicates that there is currently an oversupply of affordable accommodation in Grangemouth. However, the completion of new build housing in the town over the past year by Link and Paragon Housing Associations at Wood Street and Craigleith Road as part of the housing regeneration programme indicates that it is too simplistic to develop future housing strategies solely on the basis of statistical analysis. The development of 105 new homes for rent and low cost home ownership at Wood Street and Craigleith Road resulted in over 100 bids for each property available for let. This shows that where the housing product on offer is one which people want, a statistical over-supply issue can easily become an under-supply. 3.14 This experience suggests that there is likely to be a demand for further stock renewal/regeneration in Grangemouth but this is hindered by the fact that the town is at the centre of Scotland’s petro-chemical industries and as such is subject to rigorous planning and health and safety constraints. Nevertheless, it is likely that some form of stock reconfiguration in the town will be needed in the coming years if it is to continue to play an important role as a residential area that contributes to the overall supply of housing in the Council area and this is an issue that will need to be considered in the next LHS taking account of the funding that may be required to achieve this. Affordable Housing Policy in the Context of the Recession 3.15 The current Affordable Housing Policy (AHP) which is set out in the Local Plan which will be formally adopted by the Council by the end of 2010 is based on an analysis of housing needs that was undertaken in-house and was then confirmed by analysis undertaken in 2007 by Newhaven Research. The Newhaven Research confirmed that the AHP was robust and that housing needs analysis did not support more onerous AHP site threshold figures. Although the AHP was initially challenged at the recent Local Plan Inquiry, the objections were dropped and Supplementary Planning Guidance for the AHP has now been published. However, a review of the AHP is currently in progress taking account of more recent analysis of housing needs in the context of the HNDA and the preparation of the Local Development Plan (LDP) Main Issues Report which will be published in 2011 – (see paragraph 4.4) for more details. 21
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PROJECT Chisholm Place, Grangemouth
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Appendix 3 Equalities
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