Dec 2010 - South Worcestershire Development Plan

SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 2010687.23 The once emerging phase two WMRSS housing targets for SouthWorcestershire reflects Worcester City’s role as an area of growthwithin the west Midlands region. It represented a step-change in therate of housing development expected to be delivered localy by some9,000 extra homes.SOURCEOFTARGETLOCALAUTHORITYPLAN PERIODTOTAL (net)HOUSINGREQUIREDADOPTEDWMRSSMalvern Hills3,6161 APR 2001Worcester 4,899toWychavon 6,94331 MAR 2021South Worcs 15,458Malvern Hills4,9001 APR 2006Worcester 10,500toWychavon 9,10031 MAR 2026South Worcs 24,500Table 17: Plan period housing targets (COI, H1)PHASE TWOWMRSS7.24 As previously discussed, at December 2010 neither of these housingtargets form part of the three South Worcestershire authorities LDFs.The SWDP is now focussing its efforts on determining more locallyderived housing targets taking into account local housing need, futurepopulation and migration trends as well as local and regional publishedhousing studies. Confusingly, PPS3 still requires each LPA to maintainat least 5 year housing supply of land based upon regional strategytargets. Without regional targets it is difficult to determine whether anLPA does in fact have a defendable supply of housing land. Howeverfor the purposes of this AMR and in the absence of newly defined