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Green Belt
Grant Shapps:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Brentwood and Ongar (Mr. Pickles) of 10 December 2007, Official Report, columns 131W-9W, on the green belt, how many hectares of green belt there were in (a) Durham and (b) Easington in 1997. [182887]
Mr. Iain Wright:
I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 23 January 2008, Official Report, column 2046W.
Housing: Planning
Mr. Hoban:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what guidance has been issued to planning authorities on the density of housing development. [173541]
Mr. Iain Wright:
Using land efficiently is a key consideration in planning for housing. Guidance to local planning authorities on developing appropriate housing density policies is set out in Planning Policy Statement 3 (PPS3), published last November. While PPS3 advises a national indicative minimum density figure of 30 dwellings per hectare, it also grants more flexibility to local planning authorities to take account of local circumstances and set their own local standards for density by setting out a range of densities across their plan area, rather than one broad density range.
Housing: South West Region
Steve Webb:
To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if she will estimate for each of the unitary authority and district council areas covered by the draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West the percentage increase proposed in the independent panel report over the 2006 base in the number of new houses. [182182]
Mr. Iain Wright:
The Secretary of State is currently considering all the recommendations made by the Panel and she is planning to publish her Proposed Changes to the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy in the spring. I would like to stress to the hon. Member that no conclusions have yet been reached on any of the Panel’s recommendations.
The following table has been prepared using information at Appendix (ii) of the Panel’s report.
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| | Overall net increase in dwellings (number) for period 2006-26 | Percentage i ncrease |
| | Draft R egional S patial S trategy as submitted to Government in April 2006 by South West Regional Assembly | Recommendations of I ndependent P anel in their r eport December 2006 | Between P anel r eport and D raft R egional S patial S trategy |
|
West of England Housing Market area
|
110,200
|
126,950
|
15.20
|
|
Bristol City
|
28,000
|
30,000
|
7.14
|
|
South Gloucestershire
|
23,000
|
30,800
|
33.91
|
|
North Somerset
|
26,000
|
26,750
|
2.88
|
|
Bath and North East Somerset
|
15.500
|
18,800
|
21.29
|
|
West Wiltshire
|
10,500
|
12,300
|
17.14
|
|
Mendip
|
7,200
|
8,300
|
15.28
|
|
Swindon Housing Market area
|
49,000
|
53,900
|
10.00
|
|
Swindon
|
34,000
|
34,200
|
0.59
|
|
North Wiltshire
|
10,000
|
13,700
|
37.00
|
|
Kennet
|
5,000
|
6,000
|
20.00
|
|
Gloucester and Cheltenham Housing Market area
|
48,600
|
56,400
|
16.05
|
|
Gloucester
|
11,500
|
11,500
|
0.00
|
|
Cheltenham
|
8,500
|
8,100
|
-4.71
|
|
Tewkesbury
|
10,500
|
14,600
|
39.05
|
|
Stroud
|
6,700
|
9,100
|
35.82
|
|
Cotswold
|
6,000
|
6,900
|
15.00
|
|
Forest of Dean
|
5,400
|
6,200
|
14.81
|
|
Exeter Housing Market area
|
38,400
|
46,900
|
22.14
|
|
Exeter City
|
10,500
|
12,000
|
14.29
|
|
East Devon
|
11,400
|
17,100
|
50.00
|
|
Elsewhere in Exeter JSA (Exeter City/East Devon/ Teignbridge) (4)
|
1,500
|
—
|
-100.00
|
|
Mid Devon (3)
|
6,400
|
7,400
|
15.63
|
|
Teignbridge (3)
|
8,600
|
10,400
|
20.93
|
|
Torbay Unitary Authority Housing Market area
|
10,000
|
20,000
|
100.00
|
|
Taunton Housing Market area
|
27,900
|
34,500
|
23.66
|
|
Taunton Deane
|
17,300
|
21,800
|
26.01
|
|
Sedgemoor
|
8,400
|
10,200
|
21.43
|
|
West Somerset(2)
|
2,200
|
2,500
|
13.64
|
|
Bournemouth and Poole Housing Market area
|
40,150
|
48^00
|
19.80
|
|
Bournemouth
|
14,600
|
16,100
|
10.27
|
|
Poole
|
9,500
|
10,000
|
5.26
|
|
Christchurch
|
3,450
|
3,450
|
0.00
|
|
East Dorset in JSA
|
5,200
|
6,400
|
23.08
|
|
Elsewhere in East Dorset District (4)
|
200
|
—
|
-100.00
|
|
Purbeck
|
2,100
|
5,150
|
145.24
|
|
North Dorset
|
5,100
|
7,000
|
37.25
|
|
Plymouth Housing Market area
|
45,100
|
47400
|
4.66
|
|
Plymouth City
|
24,500
|
24,500
|
0.00
|
|
South Hams (3)
|
11,000
|
11,800
|
7.27
|
|
Caradon
|
5,800
|
6,500
|
12.07
|
|
West Devon(3)
|
3,800
|
4,400
|
15.79
|
|
West Cornwall Housing Market area
|
31,600
|
48,800
|
54.43
|
|
Penwith
|
4,800
|
7,800
|
62.50
|
|
Kerrier
|
8,200
|
14,400
|
75.61
|
|
Carrick
|
10,000
|
10,900
|
9.00
|
|
Restormel
|
8,600
|
15,700
|
82.56
|
|
Polycentric Devon and Cornwall Housing Market area
|
20,500
|
35,000
|
70.73
|
|
North Cornwall
|
7,600
|
13,400
|
76.32
|
|
Torridge
|
4,800
|
10,700
|
122.92
|
|
North Devon (2)
|
8,100
|
10,900
|
34.57
|
|
Salisbury District Housing Market area
|
9,200
|
12,400
|
34.78
|
|
Weymouth and Dorchester Housing Market area
|
13,800
|
18,100
|
31.16
|
|
West Dorset
|
8,200
|
12,500
|
52.44
|
|
Weymouth and Portland
|
5,600
|
5,600
|
0.00
|
|
South Somerset District Housing Market area
|
13,600
|
19,700
|
44.85
|
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|
Dartmoor National Park(1)
|
1,000
|
1,000
|
0.00
|
|
Exmoor National Park(1)
|
400
|
400
|
0.00
|
|
Isles of Scilly(1)
|
100
|
100
|
0.00
|
|
Total
|
459,550
|
569,450
|
23.91
|
|
Dwellings pa
|
22,978
|
28,473
|
23.91
|
(1) Estimated strictly local needs provision only.
(2) Excludes part in Exmoor National Park.
(3) Excludes part in Dartmoor National Park.
(4) The draft RSS distinguishes between allocations for complete districts and allocations for “elsewhere” within the HMA.
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