Decision details
Wirral Strategic Housing Market Assessment Update and Affordable Housing Viability Assessment - Key Findings and Policy Implications for Wirral
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Decisions:
A report by the Director of Corporate Services requested Members to:-
(1) approve the key findings of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment (SHMA) Update and Affordable Housing Viability Assessment undertaken by Fordham for Wirral;
(2) approve the use of the findings to inform the preparation of the Council’s Housing Strategy Statement and the Council’s Local Development Framework;
(3) recommend to Council that the findings of the Assessment and Viability Report be approved as a material consideration for use by Planning Committee in the determination of planning applications; and
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(4) approve the use of Fordham Research Dynamic Viability Model to test the viability of sites within the Borough on an annual basis.
RESOLVED: That
(1) the findings of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment Update Report and the Affordable Housing Viability Study be approved;
(2) the initial policy implications identified under section 5 of the report be noted;
(3) the findings be used to inform the preparation of the Council’s Housing Strategy Statement;
(4) it be noted that the findings are being used as part of the consultation process for the Core Strategy Development Plan Document which Cabinet approved on 23 September 2010;
(5) the Cabinet recommends to Council that the Strategic Housing Market Assessment Update Report and the Affordable Housing Viability Study be approved as a material consideration for use by Planning Committee in the determination of planning applications;
(6) it remains the ambition of the Cabinet to see a target of 40% affordability in new housing redevelopment reinstated as soon as market conditions make it viable; and
(7) the use of Fordham Research Dynamic Viability Model to test the viability of sites within the Borough on an annual basis be approved.
Report author: Alan Stennard
Publication date: 26/10/2010
Date of decision: 14/10/2010
Decided at meeting: 14/10/2010 - Cabinet
Effective from: 02/11/2010
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