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Five year supply of deliverable housing sitesPlanning Policy Statement 3 (Housing) states that local planning authorities should identify sufficient developable land or residential use for the next 15 years.As required this schedule sets out a deliverable supply over the first five years from 2010.This schedule will be updated on an annual basis so that the authority can provide evidence of an ongoing five year supply. The five year supply is based onoutstanding consents, as well as allocations and sites that have been identified through the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). It is brokendown into four sections (shown in Appendix 1-4):Planning permissions over 10 dwellingsLocal Plan allocationsDeliverable SHLAA sites, and;Planning permissions less than 10 dwellingsIn the first three sections, a trajectory of completions on each site over the five year period is included to give an overall supply from these sources. Thisinformation has come from the 2008/09 SHLAA and been subsequently updated to reflect market conditions and further site information received sincepublication. These updates will be reflected in the 2009/10 SHLAA update. Planning permissions less than 10 dwellings have had a 10% lapse rate applied tothem, then been equally divided over five years. As they date from April 2010, the first year is not included in the five year supply, and therefore there are onlya total of four years of this area included in the supply. Tables of the trajectories can be found in the supporting appendices.The supply has been looked at under two scenarios. The target for the first scenario is derived by using the remaining Structure Plan figures to 2011 and theRevised draft Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) figures from 2011 -2015. The second is by using the Revised draft RSS figures for the whole period, which are splitby Dorchester and elsewhere in the district. Neither of these scenarios include RSS figures for the urban extensions at both Dorchester and Weymouth, as theyare not expected to be deliverable within this five year period. This is supported by evidence in the Urban Extensions report by Halcrow.Using these methods, scenario 1 shows that the district has a supply equal to 4.35 years, falling 392 dwelling short of the combined Structure Plan and RSStarget. Scenario 2 shows that Dorchester has a 5.75 year supply, with completions being 159 above the RSS target for the period, elsewhere in West Dorset hasa 5.86 year supply, with completions being 205 above the RSS target, and overall the district has a 5.81 years supply, with completions being 364 dwellingsabove the target. These figures will be updated after April 2010 with the actual completions and permissions figures. In-depth details of how the scenarioshave been calculated are provided on the following two pages.1