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Kent and Medway Strategic Housing Market Assessment Challenges

Kent and Medway Strategic Housing Market Assessment Challenges. Kent Forum Housing Strategy Launch. Kerry Higgins, Associate Director, Residential Research Kerry.higgins@dtz.com. Scope and Structure of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment.

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Kent and Medway Strategic Housing Market Assessment Challenges

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  1. Kent and Medway Strategic Housing Market AssessmentChallenges Kent Forum Housing Strategy Launch Kerry Higgins, Associate Director, Residential Research Kerry.higgins@dtz.com

  2. Scope and Structure of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment

  3. Earnings in Kent and MedwayWorkplace and Resident Based

  4. Household income by quintile group (Source: ONS)

  5. Population and HouseholdsPast and Future Growth • Population Growth • 1991-2008 7,800pa (+132k) • 2008-2026 10,400pa (+208k) • Population will grow • Migration patterns • The economy • The new rail services • Household Growth • 1991-2006 5,300pa (+79k) • 2006-2026 8,800pa (+176k) ONS projections based on past trends • Driven by falling household size

  6. Growing population dominated by growth in older age groups

  7. Declining size of the social rented stock, private renting has increased over the same period

  8. Housing DeliveryThe challenge • Ambition for managed housing growth • Help to address affordability • Necessary for economic development • Housing allocations now to be determined locally • Maintaining new homes delivery a challenge • Incentive provided by new homes bonus

  9. Persistent concentrations of deprivation in some coastal and urban areas

  10. 8% of all stock in East Kent is unfit, 4% in the other sub-regions (5% in Kent & Medway as a whole)

  11. The Cross Cutting Themes • Energy Efficiency • Green Deal • Retrofit of existing homes • Vulnerable Households • Specialist housing provision • Mesh with provision of services • Rural Issues • Affordability and access • Limited development opportunity

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