The attached slide is an emerging framework for thinking about the factors that will feed into the process of defining the future housing requirement at a local level, and will in turn shape the types of housing study that will be required. I hope it is useful. Ultimately, the type(s) of study that is/are needed will depend upon what evidence is already available, how up to date it is, and how far it helps answer the key questions that will shape the new housing and spatial strategy debates at a local level. In some cases, where existing evidence to inform the emerging LDF and the RS process is still robust and/or where the locality broadly agrees with the existing RS approach, very limited new evidence might be needed.
