§ Mr. LoughtonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what advice he has given to local authorities when drawing up their own five year local plans as to the effect of the Government's five-year reviews of housing demand in the South East of England. [114398]
§ Mr. RaynsfordWhen finalised later this year regional planning guidance will set the overall level of housing provision for the region and provide a distribution to constituent structure plan and unitary development plan authorities. This will be expressed as an annual rate to be applied throughout the plan period. At a local plan level PPG3, published on 7 March, advises that sufficient sites should be shown on the proposals map to accommodate at least the first five years (or the first two phases) of housing development proposed in the plan. If the rate of provision at the regional level changes as a result of the monitoring and review process, local authorities will need to consider whether consequential adjustments have to be made through reviews of development plans.