Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure - P.2018/61
The States are asked to decide:
Whether, after consideration of the Policy Letter entitled 'Local Market Housing Review and Development of Future Housing Strategy', dated 30th May 2018, they are of the opinion:
1. To note the report by KPMG entitled 'Guernsey Housing Market Review';
2. To agree to change the terminology from 'States Strategic Housing Target' to 'States Strategic Housing Indicator';
3. To agree the States Strategic Housing Indicator be set at creating 635 new units of accommodation between 2017 and 2021, with a plus or minus variance of 149 new units to give the flexibility to react to market changes, equating to an annual average of 127 additional units of accommodation with a plus or minus variance of 30 new units of accommodation1;
4. To agree to separate the States Strategic Housing Indicator into an Affordable Housing Indicator set at creating 178 units of Affordable Housing over the next 5 years with a plus or minus variance of 32 new units to give the flexibility to react to demand and market changes and a private market housing indicator of 457 new units of accommodation with a plus or minus variance of 117 new units of accommodation for the same period;
5. To agree that the States will reset the States Strategic Housing Indicator at least every 5 years;
6. Notwithstanding proposition 5, to note that should the Island's housing requirement figures change to such an extent that they go beyond the variances agreed in propositions 3 and 4 above, they will be returned to the States for endorsement;
7. To endorse the Programme of Works, including the development of a Housing Strategy, and to direct the lead Committees identified for each work stream identified in this Policy Letter to prioritise those work streams alongside their current workloads;
8. To note that Committee for theEnvironment & Infrastructure will include, as part of its 2019 budget submission, a request for specific funding for the resources required for delivery of the Programme of Works.
The above Propositions have been submitted to Her Majesty's Procureur for advice on any legal or constitutional implications in accordance with Rule 4(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the States of Deliberation and their Committees.
