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SOUTH EAST PLAN Forecasts Range looks reasonable (28k-36k new homes per year), but doubts about levels of growth implied by Barker report on housing, including ability of house building industry to respond. Barker report too narrowly based. Different attitudes to house price decreases.
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SOUTH EAST PLAN Forecasts • Range looks reasonable (28k-36k new homes per year), but doubts about levels of growth implied by Barker report on housing, including ability of house building industry to respond. • Barker report too narrowly based. • Different attitudes to house price decreases. • Need better understanding of migration and backlog. • Lower jobs-based forecast the most likely.
SOUTH EAST PLAN Housing • Need to increase provision of affordable housing – but how will it funded? • Broader range of affordable housing options required. Enhanced role for private rented sector. • Section 106 an inadequate tool, but affordable housing needs to be seen as a priority.
SOUTH EAST PLAN Housing • More scope to use public sector landholdings to provide affordable housing. • More scope to use lower site size thresholds. • Need to capture increases in land values. • Measures required to ensure swift implementation of planning permissions.
SOUTH EAST PLAN Economy • Inevitable that the South East will out-perform other regions, but there needs to be long-term rebalancing. • Danger of complacency – we need to support innovation rather than stifle it. • Smart growth.