Response 1135678

Response to request for information

Reference

1135678

Response date

23 June 2023

Request

1. How many affordable housing units have been provided as a result of planning agreements related to residential-led developments that were signed in financial years (a) 2020/21 (b) 2021/22, and (c) 2022/23?
2. What percentage of overall housing units in this local authority have been provided by as a result of these planning agreements?
3. How many of the affordable housing units provided as a result of planning agreements related to residential-led developments in 2022/23 were for:
   • (a) social rent,
   • (b) affordable rent,
   • (c) shared equity/shared ownership,
   • (d) discounted market housing (including starter homes) and
   • (e) other affordable housing tenure.
4. How much was received by the authority in S106 payments in financial years (a) 2020/21 (b) 2021/22, and (c) 2022/23?
5. How much money received via S106 agreements is held, unspent, by the local planning authority? How much of this figure is specifically earmarked for:
   • (a) affordable housing provision,
   • (b) highways improvements
   • (c) education contributions,
   • (d) social infrastructure,
   • (e) healthcare services and
   • (f) other?

Response

1. How many affordable housing units have been provided as a result of planning agreements related to residential-led developments that were signed in financial years:
   • (a) 2020/21 - 139
   • (b) 2021/22, - 42 and
   • (c) 2022/23 - 7

     Figures here are the number of units approved under the affordable housing schemes for agreements signed in the relevant years. Aside from on sites that are fully complete, we don’t have figures for the number of those units that have actually been built/completed, if this is what the enquirer means by ‘provided’.

2. What percentage of overall housing units in this local authority have been provided by as a result of these planning agreements?

   0.35% - we are unsure what this question is asking, but assumed this is the total affordable units secured by the agreements as a proportion of total properties in the Borough. 

3. How many of the affordable housing units provided as a result of planning agreements related to residential-led developments in 2022/23 were for:
   • (a) social rent - 2
   • (b) affordable rent - 1
   • (c) shared equity/shared ownership - 2
   • (d) discounted market housing (including starter homes) - 2
   • (e) other affordable housing tenure - 0

     As with Q1, we’ve included a breakdown of the tenure types from agreements signed in the relevant year.

4. How much was received by the authority in S106 payments in financial years
   • (a) 2020/21 - £4,499,106.88
   • (b) 2021/22 - £15,805,062.08
   • (c) 2022/23 - £6,121,270.23
5. How much money received via S106 agreements is held, unspent, by the local planning authority? How much of this figure is specifically earmarked for:
   • (a) affordable housing provision - £4,501,707.57
   • (b) highways improvements - £4,861,866.82
   • (c) education contributions - £12,578,426.24
   • (d) social infrastructure - £2,331,304.94
   • (e) healthcare services - £2,867,564.52
   • (f) other - £15,089,037.40