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Strategies, Activities and Actions – Housing
Housing
Introduction
It is important that planning ensures the provision of sufficient, good
quality new homes in suitable locations.
The East of England Plan allocates Rochford District a minimum of 4600
dwellings to be located in the District between 2001 and 2021. In
addition, the Local Planning Authority is required to plan for delivery of
housing for at least 15 years from the date of adoption of the Core
Strategy (2025) and, in so doing, assume that the average annual
requirement of 250 units will continue beyond 2021.
Rochford’s allocation is based on meeting current and future need.
Current need encompasses the number of people in the District who are
living within a household wanting to move to their own accommodation
and form a separate household but are unable to do so (e.g. adult
children). Projected need is derived from the supposition that the
population is projected to increase from 81,300 in 2007 to 87,000 by
2021.
The East of England Plan notes the provision of housing within local
authorities between 2001 and 2006, and states the remaining provision
between 2006 and 2021.
We monitor and record projected future residential completions based on
planning permissions and known sites and publish this information as
part of our Annual Monitoring Report. In addition, in 2007 we produced
an Urban Capacity Study for the District.
The Urban Capacity Study identified a capacity of 1301 units. This figure
was based on extant planning permissions, existing allocated sites not
yet developed, projected residential development above ground-floor
retail units, projected sub-division, and re-development of deliverable and
appropriate brownfield sites.
The remaining balance to be allocated is 2489.
The components from which this figure is derived is summarised in the
following table.
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The Vision: In five
years…
New sustainable,
residential
developments are
planned that are well
related to
infrastructure,
community facilities
and play space.
Rochford Housing
Association is
delivering, on average,
50 affordable dwellings
per year which meet
the needs of local
communities.
The Vision: By
2017…
A range of new mixed
housing developments
well related to
infrastructure and
open space have been
implemented,
providing housing to
meet the needs of
local communities.
The dwellings are of
high quality,
sustainable design
which minimises their
impact on the
environment.