What is the five year housing supply?
The five year housing supply is calculated by comparing the anticipated supply of new homes within the district over a five year period against the housing requirements and trajectory set out in Policy CS.16 of our Core Strategy. This takes into account homes already built from the start of the plan period to date (known as completions) and the number of homes expected to be built in the next five years (known as commitments).
It is important that we can demonstrate a five year supply. If a local planning authority cannot show that they are meeting this requirement, their policies with regards to residential development will be considered to be "out of date". Planning officers would then be less able to resist all but the most inappropriate housing development without the risk that decisions would be overturned at appeal under the presumption in favour of sustainable development, as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).
Latest position - 31 March 2024
Our five year housing land supply is calculated as 24.65 years for the five year period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029.
Update following NPPF 2024
In December 2024 the government published a revised version of the NPPF and planning policy guidance. The planning policy guidance includes a section titled 'What housing requirement figure should authorities use when calculating their 5 year housing land supply?'
In line with this guidance, we consider that our latest 5YHLS position (at 1 March 2024) remains current and relevant as our strategic housing policies were reviewed within the last 5 years (in 2021) and assessed as remaining up-to-date.
Previous calculations of supply
The below table contains an archive of our previous five year housing supply calculations, along with explanatory notes where there are different versions with the same calculation date.
Find out more
This page can be accessed quickly using the short link www.stratford.gov.uk/5yearsupply
