Introduction

The eight constituent local authorities of the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley  have come together to produce the first Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Need and Demand Assessment (GCVHNDA) to assess housing need and demand to 2025 for all tenures across housing market areas. The work is being undertaken by the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership and will inform the Strategic Development Plan, Local Development Plans and Local Housing Strategies. 

Work commenced to develop the GCVHNDA in 2008 building on the long standing experience of joint working between the eight local authorities in the GCV area as part of the process of developing the Structure Plan. It was formalised by setting up the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership (GCVHMP) in 2009 bringing together planning and housing representatives from all eight authorities and the Scottish Government as well as involving a wider network of stakeholders with relevant expertise and interests.
 
This new Housing Market Partnership signals a change in approach to strategic planning of housing requirements in the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley area in response to  the recommended approach set out by Scottish Government in national planning policy. The HMP seeks to develop a clearer shared understanding of the operation of the housing market across the Glasgow and Clyde Valley area. It aims to adopt a long-term strategic view which recognises both the interaction of the various tenures in the housing system and the actual behaviour of housing systems, which operate across local authority administrative boundaries.

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Policy Context
The Scottish Government’s 2007 discussion document Firm Foundations promoted partnership working by local authorities at a regional level integrating approaches to land use planning and housing strategy. Scottish Planning Policy 3 Planning for Homes (revised 2008) similarly encouraged local authorities to cooperate regionally and set up Housing Market Partnerships. The publication of new LHS Guidance (2006) and Housing Need and Demand Assessment Guidance (2008) gave direction on how to undertake an HNDA. This guidance and advice was reinforced in the Planning etc (Scotland) Act 2006 and the GCVSDPA utilised its existing mechanisms to facilitate the development of an approach to produce its GCVHNDA.

Towards a Balanced Housing System
Government policy is to achieve a more balanced housing system ensuring a sufficient number of homes of the right type, quality, cost in appropriate locations to accommodate the Scottish Government’s anticipated growth in the number of households.

Housing Need and Demand Assessment
The principle strategic purpose of the Housing Market Partnership is to develop, and keep up to date, a strategic understanding of the complex and dynamic nature of the local housing system and the constituent Housing Market Areas backed by research, analysis and critical judgement. This evidence is to be jointly assembled and presented in a Housing Need and Demand Assessment, to be submitted to the Scottish Government’s Centre for Housing Market Analysis (CHMA) for approval.  The CHMA will assess the methodology of the HNDA with a view to signing off the assessment as “robust and credible”.  If an assessment is deemed “robust and credible” by the CHMA then the methodology should not be subject to scrutiny at Examination of the Strategic Development Plan.

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Core Outputs
The HNDA Guidance recommends that a number of defined core outputs should be produced which will serve as key input data for, in turn, statutory Strategic Development Plans, Local Housing Strategies and Local Development Plans.
These HNDA outputs should include:

• market analysis and commentary on past trends, the current situation and likely future developments
  
  
• estimates of current housing supply
  
  
• demographic data - population and household estimates and projections
  
  
• projections of housing requirements by tenure - principally the requirements for market housing and social rented housing, but also including estimates of the market for ‘intermediate’ housing tenures such as shared equity
  
  
• estimates of household groups with specific housing requirements, such as older people and people with disabilities.

The translation of the HNDA results into land allocations will occur in the SDP, LDP and LHS.

Housing Market Areas
Housing needs and demand require to be assessed within a framework of functional Housing Market Areas (HMAs).  Since 1996, within the GCV area, there has been a well-established HMA framework for comparing future demand and supply in the private sector.

This is a tiered HMA system that reflects both the degree of interconnectivity across most of the Conurbation and a more localised element of demand. As part of the HNDA, we will also be assessing need and demand at local authority level where relevant.

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Remit
The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership has the following remit:

• to share information and intelligence, including relevant contextual material and policy information
  
  
• to assist with the development of a Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) and to ensure its findings are disseminated and regularly reviewed
  
  
• to support core members in the analysis and interpretation of housing market intelligence.

Details on the existing Housing Market Area system can be found in Technical Report 5 of the 2000 Structure Plan.

Structure
The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership consists of the following groups:

Housing Market Partnership Core Group (HMPCG)
Housing and Planning representatives from eight local authorities and the Scottish Government

The HSG and PSG are sub groups of the HMPCG and both report to the HMPCG

Housing Sub Group (HSG)
Predominantly housing officers from the HMPCG focussing on elements of housing work

Planning Sup Group (PSG)
Predominantly planning officers from the HMPCG focussing on elements of planning work

In addition, there is the Housing Market Partnership Wider Network. Beyond the core membership it is recognised that there are key stakeholder/interest groups with a contribution to make - for instance, social and private landlords, developers and builders, funders, and representatives of particular housing needs groups. The HMP will complement existing consultation structures in each local authority.

The HMP Core Group will engage with this wider network in various ways, including face-to-face meetings, briefing seminars on key issues, and as a virtual network. It will also maintain dialogue with the Centre for Housing Market Analysis, the Scottish Government’s national centre supporting strategic planning of housing in Scotland.

The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning Authority has an existing Joint Committee mechanism for the approval of joint planning work and it is the intention to utilise this mechanism for the approval of the GCVHNDA. The Strategic Development Plan Manager has developed a forum of Housing and Planning Directors to discuss progress with the HNDA and to secure approval by the local authorities' housing committees.

Housing Sub Group

Tony Donohoe, North Lanarkshire Council (Chair)
Karen Finlayson, East Dunbartonshire Council
Liz Currie, East Renfrewshire Council
David Webster, Glasgow City Council
Victoria Kapke, Inverclyde Council
Lesley Muirhead, Renfrewshire Council
Jennifer Murphy, South Lanarkshire Council
Jamie Dockery, West Dunbartonshire Council
David Horner, GCVSDPA HNDA Project Manager

Planning Sub Group

Alan Williamson, West Dunbartonshire Council (Chair)
Stuart Newland, East Dunbartonshire Council
Richard Greenwood, East Renfrewshire Council
Dorothy McDonald, East Renfrewshire Council
Jan Freeke, Glasgow City Council
David Johnston, Glasgow City Council
Ron Gimby, Inverclyde Council
Fiona Milne, Inverclyde Council
Linda Wilson, North Lanarkshire Council
Michael Wright, North Lanarkshire Council
Sheena Stevely, Renfrewshire Council
Laura Gaddis, South Lanarkshire Council
Moira Clark, West Dunbartonshire Council
David Horner, GCVSDPA HNDA Project Manager
Angela Adams, GCVSDPA

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Key stages in the SDP timeline are as follows:

Published Development Plan Scheme   December 2008 (revised March 2010)
Publication of Main Issues Report   September 2010
Consultation on MIR*  September - December 2010
Publication of Proposed Plan  March 2011
Consultation on Proposed Plan  April - May 2011
Submission of Proposed Plan to Scottish Ministers   October 2011

Dates subject to change by GCVSDPA Joint Committee

* Publication of LA LHS between end of consultation on MIR and submission of
Proposed Plan to Scottish Ministers

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News and Publications

December 2009

The GCVSDPA Winter 2009 Newsletter was published and contains an article on progress of the GCVHNDA.

The newsletter can be downloaded from here.

Successful integration of Planning and Housing reaps rewards

The last few months has seen significant progress in the joint working between the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley local authority planning and housing departments as work on the Housing Need and Demand Assessment intensifies.
The HNDA is a key component of the Main Issues Report, being prepared for the Strategic Development Plan, to be published in 2010.

The recent creation of the GCV Housing Market Partnership has enabled wider stakeholder engagement including the private sector and housing agencies.

One of key components of the HNDA work is nearing completion with the Affordability Analysis study due to be finalised in January 2010. This study which is being lead by Tribal Consultants will be the first comprehensive affordability study taken across the whole of the metropolitan area.

The study seeks to address two key questions:

• How many households could, or could not, afford to meet their housing needs in the open market now and in the future?
  
  
• How many of those households could afford to meet their housing needs through the use of intermediate housing products such as shared equity now and in the future?

Other key elements of the HNDA namely, Housing Groups with Specific Housing Requirements and Backlog Need, are also progressing as a result of the joint working of planning and housing officers.

October 2009

The Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership Housing Need and Demand Assessment - An Introduction leaflet was published in October 2009 and can be downloaded from the link below.

  Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Housing Market Partnership HNDA - An Introduction   PDF 3.85 MB

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Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning Authority Joint Committee

There is a standing item on the GCVSDPA Joint Committee Agenda updating the Joint Committee on HNDA Progress. Joint Committee Agendas and Papers can be downloaded from Renfrewshire Council’s website here.

The GCVSDPA Joint Committee meets quarterly and the schedule of meetings for 2010 follows:

Monday 8 March 2010
Monday 14 June 2010
Monday 13 September 2010
Monday 13 December 2010

 

Scottish Government Publications

Scottish Government - Firm Foundations: The Future of Housing in Scotland: A discussion document (2007)
Scottish Government - Housing Need and Demand Assessment Guidance (2008)
Scottish Government - Scottish Planning Policy (2010)
Scottish Government - Scottish Planning Policy SPP 3: Planning for Homes (Revised 2008)
Scottish Government - Local Housing Strategy Guidance (2008)
Scottish Government - HNDA Appraisal Process (2009)

Centre for Housing Market Analysis

Scottish Government’s Centre for Housing Market Analysis

Local Authorities

Local authorities Local Housing Strategies due to be published in 2010 - 2011 will be based on the joint
GCV Housing Needs and Demand Assessment.  The links below are to each council's current Local Housing Strategy.

East Dunbartonshire Council - Local Housing Strategy
East Renfrewshire Council - Housing
Glasgow City Council - Local Housing Strategy
Inverclyde Council - Housing
North Lanarkshire Council - Local Housing Strategy
Renfrewshire Council - Local Housing Strategy
South Lanarkshire Council - Local Housing Strategy
West Dunbartonshire Council - Local Housing Strategy

Other Strategic Development Planning Authorities

Aberdeen City and Shire SDPA
TAYplan - Dundee, Perth, Angus and North Fife SDPA
SESplan - Edinburgh and South East Scotland SDPA

Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning Authority

For further information on the Housing Market Partnership or the Housing Need and Demand Assessment please contact:

David Horner, HNDA Project Manager
Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Strategic Development Planning Authority
Lower Ground Floor
125 West Regent Street
Glasgow
G2 2SA

0141 229 7742 | david.horner@gcvsdpa.gov.uk | www.gcvsdpa.gov.uk/hnda

 

Mailing list

If you would like to sign up to our mailing list for updates on the progress of the Housing Need and Demand Assessment please email your details to hnda@gcvsdpa.gov.uk

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