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Data Provider: Welsh Government National Statistics Provision of affordable housing through planning obligations and on rural exception sites by authority, measure and planning type
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MeasureThe numbers of units granted planning permission will not necessarily be delivered in the same year so that these figures should be considered separately from the figures delivered in the same year. [Filter]
Planning typePlanning obligations (or Section 106 agreements) are arrangements to overcome obstacles which may otherwise prevent planning permission from being granted. These may be used to offset negative consequences of development, to help meet local needs or to secure benefits which would make a development more sustainable. Note that the numbers of affordable housing units delivered through these arrangements should not be added to those delivered on rural exception sites. This is because a unit may be delivered on a rural exception site under Section 106, so that there may be an element of double counting in doing so. [Filter]
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[Collapse]AuthorityAlthough the areas covered by the national park authorities are within the boundaries of the local authorities, in the context of planning, the local authorities are responsible only for those parts of the local authority area which are not within the national park boundaries. Therefore in the planning context, the figures for local authorities and national park authorities are added together to give an overall total for Wales as a whole. [Filter]
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[Collapse]W92000004[Expand]All Wales2,5471301,228119
[Collapse]596[Collapse]All Wales[Expand]Local Authorities2,4411181,149107
[Collapse]W06000001[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesIsle of Anglesey2516430
[Collapse]W06000002[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesGwynedd1222792
[Collapse]W06000003[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesConwy826745
[Collapse]W06000004[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesDenbighshire111300
[Collapse]W06000005[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesFlintshire23301750
[Collapse]W06000006[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesWrexham4690220
[Collapse]W06000023[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesPowys24000
[Collapse]W06000008[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesCeredigion1280310
[Collapse]W06000009[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesPembrokeshire185147816
[Collapse]W06000010[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesCarmarthenshire490560
[Collapse]W06000011[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesSwansea430270
[Collapse]W06000012[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesNeath Port Talbot3502715
[Collapse]W06000013[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesBridgend4343790
[Collapse]W06000014[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesVale of Glamorgan20030668
[Collapse]W06000015[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesCardiff1680160
[Collapse]W06000016[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesRhondda Cynon Taf22301130
[Collapse]W06000024[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesMerthyr Tydfil27000
[Collapse]W06000018[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesCaerphilly510970
[Collapse]W06000019[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesBlaenau Gwent0000
[Collapse]W06000020[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesTorfaen0030
[Collapse]W06000021[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesMonmouthshire1360466
[Collapse]W06000022[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]Local AuthoritiesNewport18768755
[Collapse]595[Collapse]All Wales[Expand]National Park Authorities106127912
[Collapse]W18000001[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]National Park AuthoritiesBrecon Beacons National Park640128
[Collapse]W18000002[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]National Park AuthoritiesPembrokeshire Coast National Park6830
[Collapse]W18000003[Collapse]All Wales[Collapse]National Park AuthoritiesSnowdonia National Park364644

Metadata

Title

Provision of affordable housing through planning obligations and on rural exception sites, by planning authority

Last update

21 October 2015 21 October 2015

Next update

October 2016 (provisional)

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Affordable housing provision data collection, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.housing@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Planning authorities

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English only

General description

The information presented here relates to the number of additional affordable housing units granted planning permission and the number of additional units delivered within each planning authority area in each year. The planning authorities in Wales are the 22 local authorities and the 3 national park authorities. The data shown are the numbers of affordable housing units granted planning permission and delivered under planning obligations and on affordable housing exception sites.

The focus of this dataset is on additional affordable housing units delivered, and these are defined as those provided through new build schemes or through the purchase, leasing or conversion of existing units. This therefore excludes existing affordable units that have been renovated or refurbished, as they are not classed as being additional. However, where an existing unit has been converted into two separate units, then this represents an additional affordable unit delivered. Conversely where there was a net loss of affordable units within a property over the year there are no additional affordable housing units delivered. For example, if two self contained flats in one property were converted into one family home, then the number of additional units is classed as zero, although note that that is not recorded as a negative change to the number of additional units delivered.

In this context, delivered means that the unit is completed and is available for occupation.

Planning obligations (or Section 106 agreements) are arrangements to overcome obstacles which may otherwise prevent planning permission from being granted. These may be used to offset negative consequences of development, to help meet local needs or to secure benefits which would make a development more sustainable.

Affordable housing exception sites are small scale housing sites, often within or adjoining existing rural settlements for the provision of affordable housing to meet local needs, which would not otherwise be allocated in the development plan.

Note that the numbers of affordable housing units delivered through planning obligations should not be added to those delivered on affordable housing exception sites. This is because a unit may be delivered on a affordable housing exception site under a planning obligation, so that there may be an element of double counting in doing so.

Note also that the numbers of units granted planning permission will not necessarily be delivered in the same year so that these figures should be considered separately from the figures delivered in the same year.

Although the areas covered by the national park authorities are within the boundaries of the local authorities, in the context of planning, the local authorities are responsible only for those parts of the local authority area which are not within the national park boundaries. Therefore in the planning context, the figures for local authorities and national park authorities are added together to give an overall total for Wales as a whole.

Data collection and calculation

The information presented here is collected via annual returns from Welsh planning authorities on the actual affordable housing provision delivered during each year.

Frequency of publication

Annual

Data reference periods

Data are shown for each financial year from 2007-08 through to 2014-15.

Users, uses and context

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Rounding applied

None

Revisions information

None

Statistical quality

Please find this information in the related statistical publication, as per the given weblink.

Keywords

Social housing; affordable housing; social landlords

Name

HOUS0313