The Council is obliged to produce an “Annual Monitoring Review” which looks at how it’s performance compares to its targets.
The latest available is for the 2011/12 year. It can be viewed here.
The number of homes completed in the City in each of the last 10 years is as follows
2003 – 669
2004 – 1193
2005 – 949
2006 – 875
2007 – 557
2008 – 502
2009 – 606
2010 – 572
2011 – 354
2012 – 171 (first 6 months excluding specialist student units)
Of the 171 only 29 were classified as “affordable”.
The Cabinet member with responsibility for housing in the City is expected to come under pressure at the Council meeting later this week.
She will have to explain why it looks like the total number of affordable homes provided will be the lowest for at least 6 years.
At the same time the waiting list for homes has reached an all time high.
Planning permissions granted for home construction fell to only 198 in 2011. The Council have declined to forecast what the outturn for the current financial year will be.
Some commentators are forecasting that the number of (unimplemented) planning permissions will fall to an all time record low this year.
As at September 2011 the figure stood at 3120.
Tomorrow we’ll look at which of these permissions are on stalled developments and why.
