SOUTH EAST PLAN

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SOUTH EAST PLAN
Forecasts

• Range looks reasonable (28k-36k new homes per
  year), but doubts about levels of growth implied
  by Barker report on housing, including ability of
  house building industry to respond.
• Barker report too narrowly based.
• Different attitudes to house price decreases.
• Need better understanding of migration and
  backlog.
• Lower jobs-based forecast the most likely.

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SOUTH EAST PLAN
Housing

• Need to increase provision of affordable housing
  but how will it funded?
• Broader range of affordable housing options
  required. Enhanced role for private rented
  sector.
• Section 106 an inadequate tool, but affordable
  housing needs to be seen as a priority.

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SOUTH EAST PLAN
Housing

• More scope to use public sector landholdings to
  provide affordable housing.
• More scope to use lower site size thresholds.
• Need to capture increases in land values.
• Measures required to ensure swift implementation
  of planning permissions.

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SOUTH EAST PLAN
Economy

• Inevitable that the South East will out-perform
  other regions, but there needs to be long-term
  rebalancing.
• Danger of complacency we need to support
  innovation rather than stifle it.
• Smart growth.