planning and land use statistics

Planning and Land Use Statistics

Maria Melling

Ian Volante

Aisha Ahmed

Branch Responsibilities

Annual Surveys• Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey• Planning Consents for Affordable Housing

survey

Development Work• Housing Land Audit• Scottish Generalised Land Use database

Scottish Vacant & Derelict Land Survey

• SVDLS is an annual survey• Well established – 2007 is the 17th survey in the series• Enhanced surveys have been conducted since 1993.• Site based return• Main purpose – to provide a national source to inform

the programming of the – Rehabilitation– Planning– Reuse of urban vacant & derelict land


Main point to note from 2007 survey

• 10,240 hectares of derelict and urban vacant land recorded:

2,660 hectares (26%) were urban vacant 7,580 hectares were derelict (74%).• North Lanarkshire has the highest amount of recorded

derelict and urban vacant land with 1,399 hectares (14% Scottish Total)

• Followed by Glasgow with 1,268 hectares (12% )


Results of the survey are available:• Statistical Bulletin• On line at the Planning Statistics page

– Current bulletin– Current site register– Previous bulletins back to 1996– Basic & more detailed guidelines on completion– Links to related areas


Main policy users of SVDLS• Regeneration Unit• Used to inform the allocation of the Scottish

Vacant & Derelict Land Fund

• Glasgow, North & South Lanarkshire obtained funding from the VDLF for the second time for 2008-11

Planning Consents for Affordable Housing survey

• This survey was run for the first time in 2007.• Data was requested for the financial years 2005-06 and

2006-07.• The deadline for 2007-08 survey has just passed.• In the first year, 31 of the 34 Planning Authorities

provided a return.• This is NOT a survey of newly built affordable units or

units under construction• It IS information is recorded on affordable units at the first

stage of delivery


The main points emerging from the 2005-07 survey are:

• An estimated 12,173 affordable housing units were granted planning consent.

• 5,463 during 2005-06• 6,710 during 2006-07• 78% (9,526) of those units are to be publicly funded• In addition, a further 215 planning applications contain

developers commuted payments for affordable housing.• Glasgow had the largest number of proposed units granted

planning consent – 1,952 units, 16%.


The results are available in the following ways:• In the Statistical bulletin.• On the Planning Statistics web site

– Statistical bulletin table & charts– Housing Profile pages for each Local Authority– Data for the Housing Profile tables.


Housing Profiles pages were included to provide somecontext to the specific affordable housing issues in eachLocal Authority.The data included covers the following• The LAs Affordable Housing policy• Comparison of individual LAs data with the Scotland

average; covering– Population statistics– Lower Quartile House Prices & Earnings– Housing statistics– Suspension of Right-to-Buy

Affordable Housing PolicyTable 7Source: Council -

http://www.inverclyde.gov.uk/

Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) did not indicate a quantitative shortfall in 'affordable housing provision' for a policy to be included in the Local Plan. There is evidence at the individual settlement level that there is an emerging, if marginal, problem but not sufficient for land to be identified to make provision for it. Inverclyde's major issue is one of quality of the existing stock. A major programme of area renewal is underway/planned with large scale re-provisioning of the social rented sector and the provision of 'homestake' and other low cost housing by the RSLs and private developers in mixed tenure, new neighbourhoods. The bulk of reprovision will be undertaken by the new RSL, River Clyde Homes, following Council stock transfer in December 2007. Inverclyde continues to have an above average social rented sector and an adequate land supply for this reprovision

Inverclyde

Inverclyde

Ratio of Prices to Earnings (Lower Quartile)

2.0

2.5

3.0

3.5

4.0

4.5

5.0

5.5

6.0

6.5

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

Inverclyde - FTEarner / 1Bedroom

Inverclyde - FT &PT Earner /MediumProperties

Scotland - FTEarner / 1Bedroom

Scotland - FT &PT Earner /MediumProperties

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

1 Bedroom Properties £31,188 £37,630 £40,000 £43,500 £52,000 -14.6% -11.5% -20.0% -27.5% -25.7%1 Full Time Earner £14,570 £14,589 £16,601 £14,248 £14,804 1.4% -1.5% 6.9% -11.4% -10.4%Ratio of Prices to Earnings 2.1 2.6 2.4 3.1 3.5 -15.7% -10.1% -25.2% -18.2% -17.1%

Medium Properties £38,000 £45,000 £52,005 £60,000 £70,000 -28.3% -30.8% -30.7% -27.7% -26.3%1 Full Time + 1 Part Time Earner £18,618 £18,852 £22,112 £19,137 £19,799 1.1% -1.2% 8.9% -8.7% -8.0%Ratio of Prices to Earnings 2.0 2.4 2.4 3.1 3.5 -29.1% -30.0% -36.3% -20.8% -19.9%

2003 2004 2005 2006 2007

2.1 2.6 2.4 3.1 3.52.0 2.4 2.4 3.1 3.52.5 2.9 3.2 3.7 4.22.9 3.4 3.7 4.0 4.4

Price to Earnings Multiples at Lower-Quartile - Tables 1 and 2

Inverclyde - FT Earner / 1 BedroomInverclyde - FT & PT Earner / Medium PropertiesScotland - FT Earner / 1 BedroomScotland - FT & PT Earner / Medium Properties

Inverclyde % +/- Scottish Average Lower Quartile House Prices and Earnings - Tables 1 and 2

Right-to-Buy Sales (2001-2007) as a % of 2001 Social Dwellings

10.4% 12.1%

1.4%

36,656 2,191,278 1.7%

Council Scotland% of

Scotland

All Housing Completions (2001-2007)

1,933 143,086

Housing Statistics - Table 5

Housing Completions per 1,000 of Occupied Census Dwellings

53 65

All Occupied Census Dwellings (2001-)

Right-to-Buy Sales (2001-2007) 1,298 77,907 1.7%

Social Housing Completions (2001-2007)

511 23,398 2.2%

Occupied Census Dwellings for Social Rent (2001)

12,491 644,735 1.9%

Difference

74,984 92.0% 77.8% 14.2%6,556 8.0% 22.2% -14.2%

Population at last census (2001) 84,203 1.7%81,540 1.6% -3.2% 1.1%77,071 1.5% -8.5% 4.1%

Households at last census (2001) 36,691 1.7%36,691 1.6% 0.0% 4.5%36,800 1.5% 0.3% 11.6%

Mid Year Estimate (2006)Projected (2016)

% of Scotland

% Change Since

Census

Scottish % Change

Mid Year Estimate (2006)

Number

% of Council

Scottish Average

Urban Population

No areas covered by a Right-to-Buy Suspension

Areas covered by Right-to-Buy Suspension - Table 6

Urban / Rural Split (2006) - Table 4

Number

Projected (2016)

Rural Population

Population and Household Statistics - Table 3


The main users of this data are:

• Policy colleagues as part of the evidence in monitoring the effectiveness of PAN74

• Housing colleagues to identify where the affordable houses are being given planning position

Developmental Work

Housing Land Audits• Initially being developed to provide data on the number

of affordable housing units being built.• Alternative approach to collecting affordable housing

being considered.• A consistent approach to producing the HLA across all

Planning Authorities is being developed. • The following areas are some of those that need to be

consulted on:– Agreed core set of variables– Agreed definitions – housing completions

Developmental Work

Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset• A bid has been made for Planning research money to

produce a Scottish GLUD.• This would be based on the methodology used in

England.• This would break Scotland down into land parcels,

covering– Buildings– Gardens– Paths– Roads– Greenspace

Developmental Work

Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset

• As a second stage, consideration will be given to additional datasets that could be used to enhance the detail of basic GLUD.

• These would cover– Greenspace Scotland data– Address layer 2

Developmental Work

Scottish Generalised Land Use dataset• A Scottish GLUD would provide basic land use information for

Scotland. This would be useful for a number of work areas with in the Scottish Government such as:– Planners– Flood Division– Rural Affairs Divisions

• Detailed maps on specific areas or to address specific questions could be developed as this dataset was used and expanded.

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