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Westminster – Housing Needs Assessment 2006(i) IntroductionThis Guide, published in July 2000, has gone a long way to filling the gap which has been apparentever since, in Circular 7/91, the Government told councils they could seek affordable housingprovided that there was evidence of housing need (without defining ‘need’). There are still anumber of detailed difficulties with the advice, but they are minor compared with the gaps that havebeen filled. The following summary focuses upon the key issues, and in particular those that affectaffordable housing.It should be noted that the ODPM published, in December 2005, a Housing Markets AssessmentsDraft practice guidance which provided advice on how housing need should be assessed. Thequestionnaires for this survey were agreed before this guidance was published and so follow thecurrent Guide. However, this report has taken account of some of the main changes proposed in thenew guidance and several elements of the methodology. All future references in this report to the‘ODPM Guide’ refer to the current guidance, since the subsequent version published in March 2005and the advice contained within the Housing Market Assessment Draft practice guidance December2005 were both very much drafts.(ii) Definition of housing needThe definition of housing need controls which households are defined as being in need, andindirectly affects what constitutes affordable housing. Affordable housing is, in principle, designedto address the identified housing need. The current Guide defines a household in housing need asone which is living in housing that is not suitable for its requirements and who cannot afford toresolve this unsuitability within the private sector housing market.ODPMGuide‘Housing need refers to households lacking their own housing or living in housingwhich is inadequate or unsuitable, who are unlikely to be able to meet their needsin the housing market without some assistance’. [Appendix 2 (page 116)](iii) ProcedureAn 18-stage procedure is set out in the Guide. This is aimed at producing an estimate of the netneed for new affordable housing. Thus the Guide is very much geared to the requirements ofplanning for clear indications of the affordable housing requirement. The following tablereproduces the stages from the key table of the Guide.PAGE 24
2. Housing Needs Assessment - backgroundThe table includes an element of in-migrant need (Stage 12). Out-migration is accounted for inStage 2 of the model and also by implication at Stages 8/9. Additionally where a supply ofaffordable housing arises due to out-migrating households this is included as part of the calculationsat Stage 14.Table 2.1 Basic Needs Assessment Model:(from Table 2.1 of the Guide)Element and Stage in CalculationB: BACKLOG OF EXISTING NEED1. Households living in unsuitable housing2. minus cases where in-situ solution most appropriate3. times proportion unable to afford to buy or rent in market4. plus Backlog (non-households)5. equals total Backlog need6. times quota to progressively reduce backlog7. equals annual need to reduce BacklogN: NEWLY ARISING NEED8. New household formation (gross, p.a.)9. times proportion unable to buy or rent in market10. plus ex-institutional population moving into community11. plus existing households falling into need12. plus in-migrant households unable to afford market housing13. equals Newly arising needS: SUPPLY OF AFFORDABLE UNITS14. Supply of social relets p.a.15. minus increased vacancies & units taken out of management16. plus committed units of new affordable supply p.a.17. equals affordable supply18. Overall shortfall/surplusSource: Local Housing Needs Assessment: A Guide to Good Practice– ODPM Housing, 2000(iv) ConclusionsThe Guide provides a coherent definition of housing need, and a great deal of advice on how toimplement it. This report has been prepared in accordance with the Guide. Throughout this reportkey methodological quotes from the guide are highlighted in boxes. This is to help the readerunderstand and to reinforce the reasoning behind the analysis carried out.PAGE 25
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First Surveys MarketResearch13 Darw
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A12. Where do you and your partner
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D SPECIAL NEEDSD1. Do you or any of
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