Five-year housing land position

This page presents the following information:

• Five year housing land supply position as at 1 April 2024
• Previous five year land supply positions

Five-year housing land supply position as at 1 April 2024

In accordance with the Revised National Planning Policy Framework, July 2021 (NPPF), Local Planning Authorities are required to significantly boost the supply of housing through the identification of a deliverable five-year housing land supply (1 April 2024 – 31 March 2029).

The Council should identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide a minimum of five years’ worth of housing land. The purpose of the five year housing land supply is to provide an indication of whether there are sufficient sites available over the next five years for new residential development.

Trafford’s five year housing land supply is calculated against the housing requirement set in the adopted Places for Everyone Joint Development Plan Document (2024).

The housing requirement for Trafford for 2024-2025 is 817 and for 2025-2029 is 1,122. This is an average of 1,273 per year over the 2024-2029 period.

To improve the prospect of achieving the annual target for housing completions, there should be a buffer on the identified supply of specific deliverable sites to provide flexibility in which sites could come forward.

The buffer for Trafford is currently 20% because there has been under delivery of housing over the previous three years as set out in the Housing Delivery Test 2021 Measurement. This means that the Council has to identify enough sites to meet the five year requirement plus an additional 20%.

Previous five-year land supply positions

For information, this table sets out the five-year land supply position as at 31March each year for Trafford since 2012.

HGP: Housing Growth Point requirement
NPPF: National Planning Policy Framework
LHN: Local Housing Need