Local Development Plan

Table 2: Housing Evaluation Framework RDS 2035
Housing Evaluation Framework
Resource Test
Studies should be carried out to assess and detail the
existence of community assets and physical infrastructure such
as water, waste and sewage, including spare capacity.
3. Existing Housing Commitments
The Housing Monitor provides an overall picture of the number of
dwellings built on an annual basis and the remaining housing land
potential. It includes both land zoned for housing and land with planning
permission for housing within the settlements in the Council area.
Environmental
Capacity Test
Transport Test
Economic
Development Test
Urban and Rural
Character Test
An assessment of the environmental assets of the settlement,
the potential of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water
run-off and its potential to accommodate future outward
growth without significant environmental degradation should
be made.
Studies should be carried out to assess the potential for
integrating land use and public transport and walking and
cycling routes to help reduce reliance on the car.
The potential to facilitate an appropriate housing and jobs
balance and to unlock any major strategic development
opportunities should be assessed and detailed.
Assessment should be made of the potential to maintain a
sense of place, and to integrate new development in a way
that does not detract from the character and identity of the
settlement.
In the period from 2012 to 2015 (i.e. from commencement of HGI
allocation Period) 1,544 housing units have been completed in all the
settlements in the Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council Area (see Table 3).
Lisburn City, Greater Urban Areas of Lisburn & Castlereagh and Towns
Currently 340 hectares of zoned housing land is still remaining for
development in Lisburn City, the two Greater Urban Areas of Lisburn &
Castlereagh, and the towns of Carryduff, Hillsborough/Culcavy and Moira.
In addition, 91 hectares of land is committed for housing outside the
housing zonings in these settlements and this is likely to be developed
(See Appendix E, Maps 1-7). There is therefore a potential for
approximately 10,500 housing units on this zoned and committed land
remaining.
Community Services
Test
The potential to underpin and, where necessary, reinforce the
community service role and function of the settlement should
be assessed and detailed.
This framework sets out six tests to include a Resource Test,
Environmental Capacity Test, Transport Test, Economic Development
Test, Urban and Rural Character Test and Community Services Test.
Settlement Appraisals have been carried out for the settlements and are
a useful guide.
Villages
There is currently 25 hectares of land designated as Housing Policy Area
Land remaining in all the villages and an additional 24 hectares
committed for housing outside these zonings. There is a potential for
approximately 1,100 housing units on this zoned and committed land
remaining.
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