Affordable Housing - Shepway District Council

Affordable Housing - Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) - Adopted September 200811 Monitoring11.1 The provision of affordable housing units is and will continue to be monitoredannually as part of the Annual Monitoring Report (AMR), which is required aspart of the Local Development Framework. The report is submitted in Decembereach year covering the period April of the previous calendar year to March ofthe current year. The AMR will be made available on the District Council'swebsite.11.2 Strategic Housing Market Assessments are used for assessing housing needand demand. PPS3 Annex C sets out the requirements for these assessments.Local Authorities are encouraged to use Housing Market Assessments as partof the planning policy process, to assess housing need and demand in termsof housing market areas, and to gain an appreciation of the characteristics ofhousing market areas and how they function. It should:-Estimate housing need and demand in terms of affordable and markethousing.Determine how the distribution of need and demand varies across the planarea, for example, as between urban and rural areas.Consider future demographic trends and identify the accommodationrequirements of specific groups such as homeless households, black andminority ethnic groups, first time buyers, disabled people, older people,Gypsies and Travellers and occupational groups such as key workers,student and operational defence personnel.11.3 The council is preparing a joint East Kent Housing Market assessment togetherwith Canterbury City Council, Dover District Council, Thanet District Council,and Swale Borough Council. The results of this are expected in summer 2008.The Assessment will provide evidence, updating the findings of the 2003 HousingNeeds Survey, about the level of affordable housing required, including theneed for different sizes of affordable housing.Shepway District Council - Local Development Framework27