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<p>Hi all</p> <p>I am currently mid way through our annual housing monitoring (which under normal working conditions uses site visits and on-site discussions as a primary source of information). I know that many people will have a view on carrying out site visits - it's time consuming; use BC records etc etc; but after 15 years of doing this work, this has proven to be the most reliable and the most effective method, particularly when every single completion, and every single new dwelling forecast is scrutinised and debated at planning appeals. However, we have now had to stop carrying out our site visits and I would like some advice / information please on how other Local Authorities are collecting housing completion data and also how intelligence to inform forecasting is collected. <strong>We will of course submit completions data (in some form) for the HFR and the HDT.</strong> </p> <p> <br> In addition, with regards to forecasting, we are considering an additional 1 year (12 month) lag time i.e not forecasting any completions for the 2020-2021 period in order to take account of the impacts of Covid-19 on the development industry and a cautious assumption that house building will restart in 2021. Has anyone else considered how they will incorporate / account for these impacts?</p> <p> <br> Kind regards</p> <p>Beth</p>

Beth Fletcher 2020-04-02T08:34:02Z