Gateshead and Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment

Gateshead & Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment ‐ 2010
2.6 Ensuring a Robust and Credible SHMA
2.6.1 The SHMA Practice Guidance specifies that in line with Planning Policy Statement 12: Local
Development Frameworks (PPS12 1 ), a SHMA should be considered robust and credible if at a
minimum it provides all the core outputs outlined in Table 2‐1 below, which highlights the
sources of each of the key estimates, and meets the requirements of all the process criteria
as outlined in Table 2‐2 below.
Table 2‐1
Description of Output
Strategic Housing Market Assessment Core Outputs
Location in the SHMA Report
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2
3
4
5
6
7
Estimates of current dwellings in terms of
size, type, condition, tenure.
Analysis of past and current housing
market trends including the balance
between supply and demand in different
housing sectors and price / affordability†.
Description of key drivers underpinning
the housing market.
Estimate of total future number of
households broken down by age and type
where possible.
Estimate of current number of households
in housing need.
Estimate of future households that will
require affordable housing†.
Estimate of future households requiring
market housing.
Estimate of the size of affordable housing
required.
Section 7 outlines the existing housing stock,
specifically:‐
Sub‐Section 7.3 (Tenure Profile);
Sub‐Section 7.4 (Type Profile)
Sub‐Section 7.6 (Size Profile)
Sub‐Section 7.8 (Stock Condition)
Throughout the SHMA, a range of information is
provided about trends within the housing market,
specifically within sections 5, 6 and 8
The ONS 2008 based sub‐national population forecasts
have been utilised. These can be located in Table 5‐3
(Population change, 2008‐2033)
Table 5‐4 (Population age band forecast), 2008‐2033);
Table 5‐9 (Forecast change in households, 2006‐2031).
Section 12 ‐ CLG Needs Assessment Model
Section 12 – CLG Needs Assessment Model
Sub‐Sections 10.5 and 10.6 – Future Demand for Market
Housing
Sub‐Section 10.2 to 10.4 – Future size of Affordable
Housing
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Estimate of household groups who have
particular housing requirements.
Section 9 – The Housing Requirements of Specific
Households Groups:
Sub‐section9.2 (Households with support needs)
Sub‐section 9.3 (Housing Needs of Older People);
Sub‐section 9.4 (BME Households)
Sub‐section9.5 (Gypsy & Traveller Households)
Sub‐section 9.6 (Students).
Source: CLG Strategic Housing Market Assessments Practice Guidance Version 2 (August 2007)
1 PPS12 paragraphs 4.23 – 4.25 (39‐40)
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