Strategic Housing Market Assessment - North Devon District Council

SHMA: Torridge and North Devon Update
Key findings:
• North Devon has 2 areas in the 10% most nationally deprived for the income
Domain. One of these areas is in Ilfracombe near the coast and is the same
LSOA that falls in the 10% most nationally deprived for the IMD. The other
area is in Barnstaple but is not the same area as the one in the 10% most
nationally deprived for the IMD. These areas are in the ILFR and TTTRF submarket
areas.
• The map of North Devon identifies 12 areas within the 30% most nationally
deprived for the Income Domain and these are located in and around the
urban centres of Barnstaple (TTTRF SMA) and Ilfracombe (ILFR SMA).
• The map of Torridge above shows that there are 4 areas within the 30% most
nationally deprived for the Income Domain and that these are located in the
Bideford and Northam areas (TTRFTR SMA)
2.18 The following table identifies small areas which are in the 10% most deprived
nationally for Living Environment. The Living Environment Domain combines
the Indoors Living Sub Domain and the Outdoors Living Sub Domain. The
sub Domains are combined so that the Indoors Living Sub Domain has two
thirds of the weighting and the Outdoors Living Sub Domain has one third of
the weighting. The sub domains are as follows:
• Sub-domain: The ‘indoors’ living environment:
• Housing in poor condition: The proportion of social and private homes
that fail to meet the decent homes standard.
• Houses without central heating: The proportion of houses that do not
have central heating.
• Sub-domain: The ‘outdoors’ living environment
• Air quality: A measure of air quality based on emissions rates for four
pollutants.
• Road traffic accidents: A measure of road traffic accidents involving
injury to pedestrians and cyclists among the resident and workplace
population.
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