Northern Area Plan 2016
Strategic Plan framework: Housing Plan, Monitor and Manage

The Department is aware of the need to provide sufficient housing opportunities to meet its Plan Area requirement. It will produce housing monitoring information annually that will provide guidance on the rate of the grant of permissions, implemented consents, and the types of sites involved. This information will be used to review, if appropriate, the phasing programme in line with the guidance established in Draft PPS 12: Housing in Settlements.

Monitoring information will relate to all sources of housing supply including windfalls. The Urban Capacity Study identified a large number of previously developed sites that are positively promoted for redevelopment as housing zonings. However, there is the potential for windfall sites to be a substantial resource in meeting housing requirements. There may be large sites that could not reasonably be identified in the study that will become redundant and uneconomic for their current use in the lifetime of the Plan. Also, there may be instances where fewer housing numbers are coming forward than anticipated.

Changing circumstances may require the Department to review the phasing schedule and the timing of the release of Phase 2 sites. The circumstances in which this may happen are: