Policy information sourced from the Waltham Forest Local Plan

95 Monitoring Growth Targets

The Council will monitor progress towards the achievement of the key targets for growth (housing, including affordable housing, employment space and retail) annually as part of the Council Authority Monitoring Report (AMR). In the event that delivery falls significantly behind that which is required to achieve these targets, the Council will trigger a full or partial review of the Plan in order to address the reason(s) for underdelivery. Key indicators that would trigger a full or partial review are:

A. Failure to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply in any monitoring year with the following 2 monitoring years indicating no recovery in the position;

B. Housing completions fall more than 15% beneath the targets in the housing trajectory over any rolling 3-year period;

C. The delivery of employment space falls more than 20% beneath the target over any rolling 3-year period;

D. A reduction of more than 20% in retail space in designated centres over a 3-year period;

E. A failure to meet the visitor uplift in identified Suitable Alternative Natural Greenspaces (SANGs) necessary to accommodate the new homes delivered(79) followed by an Epping Forest Condition Survey and visitor survey in the Special Area of Conservation (SAC) that demonstrates deterioration in the condition of the SAC resulting from recreational pressure; and

F. Harm to the Epping Forest SAC arising from traffic growth, based on the number of trips to/from a development site compared with the level set out in the submitted Transport Assessment and Air Quality Study 2.