How to boost Housing Delivery in the UK and Beyond?
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government proposed reforms to the National Planning Policy Framework and other changes to the planning system, including:
- 1.5 million mandatory housing targets over the next 5 years: Optimal Cities can support in identifying the optimal sites and conditions to deliver the housing and required infrastructure, while revealing opportunities to improve the environment and connectivity around those areas to maximise health and wellbeing.
- Review of the greenbelt to identify ‘grey belt’ land and meet local housing needs, with ‘golden rules’ driving 50% delivery of affordable homes: Optimal Cities can leverage satellites and GeoAI to identify priority areas with highest potential for socio-economic development, addressing spatial deprivation and lowest environmental value.
- New standard method for housing need, i.e. 371K/yr (80K/yr in London): Optimal Cities leverages the latest authoritative data and combines with satellite-derived indicators and multi-source datasets to verify confidence levels in regards to socio-economic insights.
- Commitment to making it easier to build key infrastructure such as laboratories, gigafactories and data centres, as well as making changes to deliver more large onshore wind projects and solar development across the country: Optimal Cities supports in identifying optimal sites and highlighting gaps in infrastructure and accessibility requirements to enable economic growth, improving work productivity, attracting and accessing suitable talent.
If you are a local authority or developer keen to discuss how housing delivery can be boosted by up to 80%, get in touch with our Planning Director, Silviu Pirvu FRSA
