Affordable Housing Securing Planning Consent, 2005-2008

3. TENURE AND PLANNING AUTHORITY BREAKDOWN

• Section 3 provides a breakdown of affordable housing granted planning consent (during 2005/08) by tenure and planning authority.
• Table 4 shows a tenure breakdown of affordable housing granted planning consent. 71 per cent (13,355 units) of all housing granted planned consent during the survey period are for rent by a RSL. This accounts for 79 per cent of affordable housing entirely publicly funded and 47 per cent of affordable housing with a developer contribution.
• 13 per cent (2,486 units) of all affordable housing granted planned consent are for low cost homeownership by a RSL. This accounts for 11 per cent of affordable housing entirely publicly funded and 21 per cent of affordable housing with a developer contribution. 37 per cent of all low-cost home ownership units granted planning consent involve a developer contribution. This compares to 16 per cent of all consented units for social rent by a RSL.
• 3 per cent (498 units) of all affordable housing granted planning consent during 2005/08 are to be for rent by the local authority. This is split into 394 granted planning consent in Midlothian, 60 in East Lothian, 33 in Aberdeen City, 7 in Falkirk and 4 in Aberdeenshire.
• 11 per cent of all affordable units granted planning consent during the survey reporting period currently have an unknown tenure type (and this accounts for a quarter of all units provided by way of developer contribution). This may be due to proposed developments not being at an advanced enough stage yet for Planning Authorities to know final decisions on tenure (some Planning Applications will not distinguish tenure types beyond affordable status). These unknown units should be re-classified into other tenure types as events develop (and this will be recorded in future issues of the survey).

Table 4: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing by Tenure, 2005/08 ^1-2

1. Excludes Information from Moray for all years, and Argyll and Bute and Clackmannanshire for 2007/08
2. As a percentage of the total affordable units granted Planning Consent for tenure

• Table 5 (below) shows a breakdown of planning consents for affordable housing (during 2005/08) by Planning Authority. This also shows what type of contribution is being made towards affordable housing by Planning Authority. Some Planning Authorities also agree commuted payments with developers for affordable housing, information on this is available in Section 5. Pages 7, 8 and 9 contain illustrative maps on affordable housing planning consents (for the South of Scotland, Central Scotland and the North of Scotland).

Table 5: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing by Planning Authority, 2005/08 ^1-2

1. Excludes Information from Moray for all years, and Argyll and Bute and Clackmannanshire for 2007/08
2. See Annex for further details on Contribution Types and the recording of Planning Applications
3. Entirely Public Contribution includes where a Registered Social Landlord intends to supply commercially raised funds
4. Developer Contributes Land/Units is where developer agrees to provide land/built units to a Registered Social Landlord (or other body) at a price that allows for the provision of affordable housing
5. Cairngorms developments have been recorded by overlapping authorities

Map 1: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing - NORTHERN ISLES AND KEY TO MAPS

Map 2: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing - NORTHERN SCOTLAND

Map 3: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing - CENTRAL SCOTLAND

Map 4: Contribution Towards Affordable Housing - SOUTHERN SCOTLAND

• Table 5 (and Maps 1, 2 and 3) show that the highest number of affordable housing units granted consent during the survey reporting period were in Glasgow City (3,539 units), followed by Highland (2,025 units), Edinburgh (1,889 units) and Fife (892 units). Collectively those 4 Planning Authorities account for 44 per cent of all affordable housing units granted planning consent during 2005/08.
• Within 11 Planning Authorities, 100 per cent of consented affordable units are to be entirely publicly funded. This includes a mixture of urban authorities (such as Glasgow City and Dundee City) and more rural authorities (Eilean Siar, Orkney Islands and the Shetland Islands).
• In terms of contributed units, those Planning Authorities who granted consent to the largest amount of affordable housing with a developer contribution were Edinburgh (1,121 units), Highland (1,044 units) and Perth and Kinross (399 units). Collectively those 3 Planning Authorities account for 58 per cent of all affordable housing granted consent (with a developer contribution) during 2005/08.
• Developers agreeing to sell units to private individuals at below market rate (as part of Planning Agreements) remains relatively rare. Only 189 units were granted planning consent during 2005/08 under this scenario. And handful of Authorities granted this sort of consent, the most being 46 in Angus.
• 'Other Type of Developer Contribution' refers to various types of contribution which cannot presently be categorised under one of the other headings. Quite often this is because although affordable units have been granted planning consent (either full or outline), decisions on final contribution types have not yet been reached. This currently accounts for 3 per cent (520 units) of all affordable housing granted planning consent during 2005/08.