DRAFT - 5 year supply 2011-16 - Allerdale Borough Council

LDF Evidence Base
Allerdale
Local Development Framework
2 Methodology
This document puts forward a selection of
deliverable and developable housing sites that
the Council believes will be built within the
next 5 years.
Establishing the 5 Year Housing Target
For the purposes of this document, the
Council considered four possible targets:
• 2,375 - The RSS target covering the
period 2003 to 2021, including residual
shortfall since 2003, translating to 475
dwellings per year
• 1,584 - The RSS target, including the
residual shortfall since 2003, but
extended to 2026 to better reflect the
emerging development plan period,
translating to 317 dwellings per year
• 1,335 - The original RSS annualised
target, without the residual shortfall,
translating to 267 dwellings per year
• 840 - The actual completion rate in
Allerdale over the last five years,
translating to an average 168 dwellings
per year.
It was felt that the two options that include the
residual shortfall in meeting the RSS annual
housing target since 2003 presented an
unrealistic and unsustainable completion rate
when considered in light of the figure for
actual completions over the last 5 years.
However, it was felt that to use the past
completion rate figure would also prove to be
unsustainable in that it did not allow for the
aspirational levels of growth presented within
the Energy Coast Masterplan and could lead
to a stifling of economic development. In light
of this, it was felt that the original RSS figure,
based as it was on evidence that remains
sound, was the most realistic target and would
best reflect anticipated levels of growth until
the Council was able to conduct its own study
into producing a revised housing target.
This document uses the original RSS
target of 267 dwellings to calculate the
Council’s five year housing target of 1,335
new houses by 2016.
Sources of Housing Land
In accordance with guidance on the
identification of a five year supply of housing
land, four main sources of new housing were
considered. These included:
• Outstanding Planning Approvals
These are sites that currently have planning
permission, either full or outline, on which
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