Monitoring the Local Plan
We want to measure the progress we've made in preparing and delivering Local Plan policies. The documents below help inform reviews of our Local Plan. The monitoring process reports:
- how we're working with other local authorities to deliver Local Plan policies
- information we've collected which shows what progress we're making
- policies we are not currently applying
Five Year Housing Land Supply (5YHLS)
Our Local Plan outlines how many houses we need to provide every year to meet demand. We use the Land Availability Assessment to:
- survey potential housing sites in Guildford
- identify which of these sites could be developed in the next five years (called 'deliverable' sites)
Every year, we update the supply of deliverable sites to make sure we can meet our housing requirements.
Read our latest
Five Year Housing Land Supply Position
(PDF)
[255KB]
.
Housing Delivery Test (HDT)
The HDT is an annual measurement of how many homes we've delivered over the last three years. We compare this figure to the number of homes we were expected to build over the same period.
The 2022 HDT found we had delivered 171% of our housing requirement between 2019 and 2022.
This is an improvement from 2021 where our HDT result was 144%.
Authority Monitoring Reports (AMR)
Our Authority Monitoring Reports (previously called Annual Monitoring Reports) include:
- progress of Local Plan preparation
- activity relating to our duty to cooperate with other local authorities
- implementation of Local Plan policies
- implementation of Neighbourhood Plans
Read the reports below:
- Authority Monitoring Report 2022/2023 (PDF) [636KB]
- Authority Monitoring Report 2021/2022 (PDF) [1MB]
- Authority Monitoring Report 2020/2021 (PDF) [672KB] (including supplementary update published October 2021 and further updates published March 2022)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2019/2020 (PDF) [824KB]
- Annual Monitoring Report 2018/2019 (PDF) [790KB] (opens new window)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2017/2018 (PDF) [1MB] (opens new window)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2016/2017 (PDF) [683KB] (opens new window)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2015/2016 (PDF) [415KB] (opens new window)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2014/2015 (PDF) [391KB] (opens new window)
- Annual Monitoring Report 2013/2014 (PDF) [300KB] (opens new window)