Housing
Housing
Approach to affordable rent clarified
We took a report to the 20 December meeting of our Planning Committee which clarified our affordable housing policies, including how we will deal with the new affordable rent tenure.
Affordable rent in Southwark study 2011
This study looks at the affordability of affordable rent across the nine different postcode areas of Southwark. It models a range of scenarios from 40% to 80% market rents for one, two, three and four bedrooms dwellings. It shows that it will be very difficult for people in housing need to afford the affordable rent model, particularly family homes.
Impact of the affordable rent tenure on the viability of developments in Southwark 2011
This study looks at the viability of delivering affordable rent housing in Southwark. It considers the potential for development sites in Southwark to deliver affordable housing at varying percentages and mixes, while maintaining other planning obligations at the current levels as advised.
Southwark Commuted Sums Study 2011
This study looks at how much money could be secured as a pooled contribution in lieu of on-site affordable housing, if a scheme was 100% private housing rather than requiring affordable housing to be on site. It tests the amount of potential pooled contribution that could be viable by testing 35 sites across Southwark. It is part of the evidence base for the draft affordable housing supplementary planning document 2011.
Student Implementation Study 2011
This study looks at how strategic policy 8 of the core strategy on requiring affordable housing within student homes could be implemented. It looks at ways in which the policy can be implemented as well as testing the viability of the policy. It is part of the evidence base for the draft affordable housing supplementary planning document 2011.
Affordable housing viability study 2010
This report examines in terms of financial viability, the potential for development sites in Southwark to deliver affordable housing at varying percentages and mixes, while maintaining other planning obligations at the current levels as advised.
Such testing is not only a requirement of national policy, specifically PPS3 and necessary in meeting the tests of 'soundness' within the LDF process, but is simple good practice in determining realistic and implementable policies.
Housing requirements study 2009 and the sub area reports
The study was undertaken to inform local policies, in particular relating to the development plan and housing strategy surrounding affordable housing provision. The study provides a key component of the evidence base required to develop and support a robust policy framework.
- Housing requirements study 2009 - main report
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Aylesbury
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Bermondsey
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Borough and Bankside
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Camberwell
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Dulwich
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Nunhead and Peckham Rye
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Peckham
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Rotherhithe
- Housing requirements study 2009 - area report Walworth
Southwark Housing Development Capacity Assessment
The Development Capacity Assessment (DCA) is a tool used to estimate potential future housing capacity that may come forward across a number of sites in the Borough. It has been developed following on from the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment 2009 (SHLAA) produced by the Greater London Authority (GLA). The DCA looks in more detail at the potential housing sites over 0.25 Hectares identified through Southwark's input into the SHLAA alongside smaller sites. The SHLAA helped the GLA in developing a 10 year housing target for each Borough which was set out in the draft replacement London Plan 2009.
The draft replacement London Plan 2009 has been independently examined and is due to be adopted in July 2011. The core strategy uses the housing target in the Adopted London Plan 2008. We have rolled this target forward to cover the 15 years of the Core Strategy, from 2011-2026. The GLA have confirmed this approach is in general conformity with the London Plan.
The DCA has taken the sites proposed as potential development sites in the SHLAA and determined whether they are all suitable as potential housing sites in the future and the timescale in which they realistically may come forward. It has assessed sites already proposed as allocated sites in the Southwark Plan UDP 2007, as well as sites that currently have valid planning permission, those that are on land owned by the council, those that are proposed through our Area Action Plans and other sites above and below 0.25 hectares that have the potential to accommodate housing in the future.
These assessments are not based on discussions with owners, rather, they are an assessment of potential sites that may help us to deliver on our housing targets over the time period of the Core Strategy. As such, it is important to stress that the Development Capacity Assessment is a forward capacity estimate only which assists Southwark Council in developing its housing trajectory. It is not to be used as a definitive list of sites that will come forward in the future, or with the number and breakdown of housing units that are outlined within it.
- Current Southwark Housing DCA spreadsheets
- Archived Southwark Housing DCA spreadsheets
- Canada Water DCA July 2011
South East London strategic housing market assessment 2009 and the sub reports
Opinion Research Services (ORS) was commissioned by local authorities in South East London to undertake housing requirements studies in each borough and a strategic housing market assessment for the sub region.
The local authorities involved in the project are Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark. A SHMA is a framework that local authorities and regional bodies can follow to develop a good understanding of how housing markets operate.
It promotes an approach to assessing housing need and demand which can inform the development of local development document and regional spatial strategy planning for housing policies, as set out in planning policy statement 3: housing (PPS3).
Southwark housing strategy 2009
The strategy sets out the strategic objectives and priorities for housing and housing-related services across all tenures. It explains how the council and its key partners aim to respond to the housing issues facing us over the next seven years.
Southwark private sector stock condition survey 2008
This report presents the findings of a private sector housing stock condition survey. The results are statistically robust and provide an accurate reflection of housing conditions in the private sector during 2008.
Research into the need for additional student housing in Southwark 2008
The report provides an overview of student accommodation to better understand the needs and current housing arrangements in the borough.
Elephant & Castle Regeneration Agreement
Report to cabinet to agree the terms of the Regeneration Agreement with LL (Elephant and Castle) Ltd for the regeneration of the Elephant & Castle.
