| Term |
Description |
| SHMA |
Strategic Housing Market Assessment: one that involves all tenures
and is set in a stakeholder process that produces results for a given
set of market and sub-market areas |
| HMA |
Housing Market Area: There is no single definition available for
an HMA |
| Guidance |
The key reference is PPS3 of November 2006, as quoted above, which
is supported by SHMA Practice Guidance explaining a detailed approach
to producing an SHMA, which was published in March 2007 (Version 1)
and August 2007 (Version 2). There is very little difference between
the two versions. |
| Stakeholder involvement |
Stakeholders are defined as various interest groups with a central
interest in the housing market. They include public officials, specialist
quasi public and voluntary bodies concerned with housing (e.g. Housing
Associations (RSLs)
and private sector bodies such as house builders, private landlords,
estate and letting agents). |
| All tenure approach |
A key feature of the CLG
approach in PPS3 is that all tenures should be covered. This means
that the former Housing Needs Assessment (HNA) which focussed on a
technical analysis of the need for affordable housing, has been subsumed
in a much wider and less technical process. |
| Evidence base |
PPS3 gives the evidence base, of which an SHMA is a key part, a
central role in determining policy. This give more responsibility
to the process and documentary results of it, but also more scope
for it to affect such figures as the RSS target, which historically
has been 'top down' from higher levels of government, but which is
now becoming more of a compromise between local 'bottom up' evidence
and 'top down' direction. |
| RSS |
Regional Spatial Strategy: A statutory document which sets out both
the overall housing numbers to be built and also the affordable proportions
for a given region. The RSS is consulted upon so that the local views
and the local evidence base of the SHMA is a part of the process. |
| LDF |
Local Development Framework. This is the planning structure within
which sites for development and other infrastructure improvements
are programmed. It includes the locally detailed translations of the
overall RSS targets. |
| RHS |
Regional Housing Strategy: This is the non-statutory companion of
the RSS, addressing specifically housing issues. |
