Five Year Housing Land Supply

The revised NPPF (December 2024) requires Local planning authorities to identify and update annually, a supply of specific deliverable sites providing a minimum of five years’ worth of housing against their housing requirement set out in adopted strategic policies.  Where the strategic policies are more than five years old, local planning authorities should supply five years’ worth of housing against their local housing need (The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) paragraph 78). 

The NPPF also states that the supply of specific deliverable sites should in addition include a buffer of:

a) 5% to ensure choice and competition in the market for land; or

b) 20% where there has been significant under delivery of housing over the

previous three years, to improve the prospect of achieving the planned supply; or

c) From 1 July 2026, for the purposes of decision-making only, 20% where a local planning authority has a housing requirement adopted in the last five years examined against a previous version of the Framework, and whose annual average housing requirement is 80% or less of the most up to date local housing need figure calculated using the standard method set out in national planning practice guidance.

The existing 5 Year Housing Land Supply sets out the housing supply position in Epsom and Ewell borough at the 1st April 2023.  This can be found in the AMR (Appendix A).

Housing Delivery Test Action Plan

The Housing Delivery Test (HDT) was introduced in 2018 alongside various measures by central government to increase housing delivery in the country through the Planning system. The HDT measures the previous three years housing delivery in an authority area against the authority’s housing requirement.

The latest results of the Housing Delivery Test are published here. 

Housing Delivery Action Plan

The Borough has failed to deliver 95% housing delivery for the previous three years against the housing requirement and has produced Housing Delivery Action Plans to identify the causes of under-delivery and actions to increase it in the future. An updated action plan will be published in due course

Housing Delivery Action Plan 2019

Housing Delivery Action Plan 2020

Housing Delivery Action Plan 2021

Gypsy, traveller and travelling showpeople five year supply

Local planning authorities are required to identify and update annually, a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide 5 years worth of sites for traveller accommodation against locally set targets (planning policy for traveller sites, PPTS 2015, para.10).

The term ‘traveller’ accommodation for planning purposes, includes gypsy, traveller and travelling showpeople accommodation, as per the terminology used in PPTS.

It informs the council’s Authority Monitoring Report (AMR) and the determination of planning applications where supply for traveller pitches and/or plots is identified as an issue.