Monitoring

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

• 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) 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. Following adoption of the Borough Local Plan the Government undertook a re-calculation of the HDT measurement and concluded that the HDT measurement for 2021 was 111%. A copy of the letter from the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities confirming this assessment is included below. 

Windsor and Maidenhead updated Housing Delivery Test result 2021 (May 2022)

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

Five Year Housing Land Supply

In March 2024 the Council’s position was that there is a 4.69 year supply. The detail of the Council’s position is set out in its evidence to the Spencer’s Farm Public Inquiry (see Housing Land Supply Proof of Evidence, Rebuttal and Statement of Common Ground). 

Spencer's Farm Public Enquiry

On Thursday 12 December 2024 the Government published the revised National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Paragraph 78 of the NPPF requires local planning authorities to identify and update annually its 5 year housing land supply. 

This is now to include a 5% buffer to ensure choice and competition in the market for land. As the 5% buffer was not required in March 2024, it is now necessary to add that into the calculation of the 5 year requirement. 

This means that the council’s current position is that there is a 4.47 year supply. The council will update its position in due course to a Sunday 31 March 2024 base date.