Monitoring

Monitoring has an important role within the planning system. The most recent Authority Monitoring Reports are available to download below:

• Authority Monitoring Report 2025
• Authority Monitoring Report 2024.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2023.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2022.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2021.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2020.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2019.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2018.
• Authority Monitoring Report 2017

Housing delivery

The Royal Borough monitors housing provision across the borough in terms of net dwelling increase from all sources, including new build, demolitions, conversions and changes of use. The most recent housing delivery data is available below.

• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2024/25
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2023/24.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2022/23.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2021/22.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2020/21.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2019/20.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2018/19.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2017/18.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2016/17.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2015/16.
• Housing Flows Reconciliation (HFR) 2014/15.

Each year the Government undertakes a measure of housing delivery in each plan-making area, called the Housing Delivery Test (HDT). In the case of the Royal Borough that means an assessment for the whole Borough Local Plan area. 

The latest HDT measurement for the Borough published by the Government is the 2023 measurement.  The Royal Borough was assessed as scoring 95%.  That means that no sanction is applied to the Council for this score.

You can find out more about the Housing Delivery Test on the Government’s website.

Five year Housing Land Supply

The Council's current published five year housing land supply position is that there is a 4.04 years supply. The details are set out in the latest Position Statement. 

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (December 2024) paragraph 78 c) states that the scale of the buffer applied to the supply against the requirement should be:

From Wednesday 1 July 2026, for the purposes of decision-making only, 20% where a local planning authority has a housing requirement adopted in the last five years examined against a previous version of this Framework (footnote 41), and whose annual average housing requirement (footnote 42), is 80% or less of the most up to date local housing need figure, calculated using the standard method set out in national planning practice guidance.

The Council's position is that the annual average housing requirement as defined in the NPPF and set out in the Borough Local Plan (February 2022) is less than 80% of the most up to date local housing need figure for the Borough. As such a 20% buffer should be applied.

The effect of this in relation to the published Position Statement is that the requirement effectively increases from 5,947 dwellings for the 5 year period 2024/25 - 2028/29 (1,189 dwellings per year) with a 5% buffer to 6,797 over the same five year period (1,360 per year) with a 20% buffer. This means the Council can demonstrate a 3.53 year supply based on the supply set out in the Position Statement.

The Council will update the Position Statement later in the year to an April 2026 base position.