Archived decisions

    Adopted local plan

    The East Hampshire District Local Plan:First Review was adopted in November 1998 and has an end date of March 31 2001. Although the end date has passed, the plan remains the starting point for determining planning applications.

    Review local plan

    The East Hampshire District Local: Second Review extends the policies to 2011. The Second Deposit version of the Plan was published in January 2002. The Council will be publishing Pre-Inquiry Changes to the Plan in December 2002.

    The Public Local Inquiry into objections to the Plan will start on 8 April 2003 and is scheduled to last for 6 months.

    Housing land supply/Urban Capacity Study

    The Council has revised its approach to the Urban Capacity Study (UCS) for East Hampshire in the light of comments received on the first Study published in January 2002 with particular reference to the methodology used to assess the potential from large scale housing windfalls. The changes comprise:

    _ identifying potential large windfall sites (10 dwellings or more) on maps;

    _ including rear gardens in assessment and listing potential development areas;

    _ increasing the density multipliers; and

    _ increasing the discount percentage.

    By identifying sites and listing areas of back gardens, it is considered that the revised UCS, to be published in December 2002, is more clear, transparent and robust and will help to justify the large site windfall allowance in the Local Plan. Landowners have been notified of the inclusion of their site. The revised study identified potential for just over 1000 dwellings (after discounting) in the period from 2002-2011, compared with the previous study which suggested that 700 dwellings would come forward in the period 2001 - 2011.

    Land supply for future building and adequacy compared to SP baseline figure

    To meet baseline figure of 5500 it is estimated that 4457 dwellings will be provided through dwellings already built (1910), dwellings with planning permission (427), small site windfalls (1020), subdivision (80) and large windfall (1020 - as verified in the UCS). This leaves 1043 which can be met through brownfield allocations (455), First Review Local Plan allocations (429) and greenfield allocations (185). Total supply 5526

    Scale and type (brownfield/greenfield) of allocations in draft local plan

    11 allocations to meet baseline - 7 brownfield, 4 greenfield (range 15 -150 dwellings) 17 greenfield sites to meet reserve provision of 1500 dwellings (range 30 -175 dwellings).

    Other significant topics/local plan proposals/local issues

Housing issues dominate. Objections to housing distribution strategy, sequential approach, ranking of reserve sites - over 100 omission sites suggested. Objections to lowering of site thresholds for affordable housing. The boundaries and future proposals for the administration of the South Downs National Park is a contentious local issue which has implications for future plan preparation.