Residential Land Commitments
Position Statement
No. 36
As at 1 April 2009
Residential Land Position Statement No. 36 – as at 1 April 2009
CONTENTS
Page
No.
1.
Introduction
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2.
Explanatory Notes
2
3.
General Notes
4
A.
Large Sites Commitments (5 units or more)
5
B.
Small Sites Commitments (4 units or less)
11
C.
Commitments involving Conversions/Changes of Use
28
D.
Summary of Commitments
38
E.
Summary of Dwelling Completions
40
F.
Sites Completed
42
G.
Non-Residential Development involving the loss of Housing
50
H.
Planning Permissions awaiting the Completion of s.106
Agreements
52
I.
Progress towards Structure Plan Housing Requirement
53
Graphs:
Large Housing Commitments at 1 April 2009
Small Housing Commitments at 1 April 2009
Conversions/Changes of Use at 1 April 2009
Total Housing Commitments in Dacorum at 1 April 2009
Housing Completion Rates April 1991-March 2009
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27
37
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Residential Land Position Statement No. 36 – as at 1 April 2009
1.
INTRODUCTION
1.1
The Borough is experiencing significant demand for new housing along
with other districts in the county. Therefore, it is important that the
Council has information on the nature, progress and distribution of
housing in the district to help inform decisions and policy on new
housing development.
1.2
The Position Statement is intended to provide a snapshot of housing
commitments (i.e. land available for housing) and completions within
the Borough. The document is published annually and represents the
position on 1 April 2009. The full period covered by the Position
Statement is 1 April 2008 – 31 March 2009. It helps set out the
progress towards meeting the Borough’s Structure Plan housing
requirements over the period 1991-2011 and will indicate future
progress on the East of England Plan. It also provides basic monitoring
information in support of the housing policies and programme in the
Dacorum Borough Local Plan 1991 – 2011 and the emerging Local
Development Framework.
1.3
The Statement may also be of use to those wanting to find out the
general progress on individual sites or for those looking at the
availability of plots of land with planning permission for housing.
However, in terms of the latter it is important that you refer to the
relevant planning application files held in the Civic Centre for further
and more up to date details.
1.4
Additional information on the Position Statement can be obtained from
the Spatial Planning team as follows:
Tel: 01442 228383
e-mail:
[email protected]
Spatial Planning
Planning Department
Dacorum Borough Council
Civic Centre
Marlowes
Hemel Hempstead
Herts, HP1 1HH
Note: The information presented in the Position Statement is given in good
faith and without prejudice on the part of Dacorum Borough Council.
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Residential Land Position Statement No. 36 – as at 1 April 2009
2.
EXPLANATORY NOTES
(a) General:
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All sites either have a current planning permission for residential
development or are subject to a planning obligation (s.106 Agreement)1.
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Sites subject to incomplete s.106 Agreements are included in the Position
Statement as a separate schedule (see Section H). Until the completion of
the legal agreement, the sites do not make any contribution to the housing
supply requirement.
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Developments involving a net loss of housing units are included in the
Position Statement (e.g. a scheme solely resulting in the demolition of
dwellings) together with schemes involving no net increase (e.g.
replacement dwellings). The former is to be found in Section G.
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In the case of several permissions on the same site, it is the consent that
establishes the highest total that is recorded.
(b) Schedules:
The following column headings are used throughout the Position Statement:
Column
Heading
Settlement
Comments
Any settlement ending with “(S)” refers to a site falling within
an identified urban or village boundary defined on the
proposal maps to the Dacorum Borough Local Plan 1991 –
2011. Those without the designation are sites close to but
outside of these settlements or are villages not identified in the
Plan.
Planning Status U/C – Site is under construction.
Where provided, the site area is gross and measured in
Site Area
hectares.
The planning application number has one of the following
Appl No.
suffixes:
Address
Number of
Units
OUT Outline planning consent granted.
RES Reserved Matters approval to outline planning consent.
FUL Full planning permission.
ROC Removal of a condition.
These are not in street name order.
This has three categories:
TOTAL - Total gross number of dwellings.
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A planning obligation is generally a legal agreement between the local planning authority
and the developer or a unilateral undertaking by the developer. Planning permission is not
granted until the planning obligation is completed.
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Commitments
Dev Type (in
Schedule F –
Sites
Completed)
BUILT - Units completed to date as a running total..
LOST – Existing units lost through the development.
This explains the number of units remaining to be built taking
into account any that are already completed. The “Gross”
heading only takes this into account, whereas the “Net”
column looks at both completions and any losses.
RLR – large housing site
RSR – small housing site
RCR – conversions/changes of use
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3.
GENERAL
3.1
There are no comments for this Position Statement.
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