Housing Delivery Test (HDT) - Action Plan

The Housing Delivery Test (HDT) was introduced by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG - now called the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities) in 2018 to ensure that local authorities and other stakeholders are held accountable for their role in ensuring new homes are delivered.

The HDT assesses the number of homes built in local authority areas over the previous three years and compares these against local housing requirements. Local planning authorities that fail to meet delivery targets are required to take appropriate action to address under delivery.

The fifth Housing Delivery Test was published in December 2023, and covers the period from 2019/20 to 2021/22. The results for each authority are as follows:

• Adur District Council scored 72%:
  As a consequence, the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies; an Action Plan will be prepared, and in calculating the five-year housing land supply, a 20% buffer must be added.
• Worthing Borough Council scored 33%:
  As a consequence, the presumption in favour of sustainable development applies; an Action Plan will be produced, and in calculating the five-year housing land supply, a 20% buffer must be added.

Adur District Council and Worthing Borough Council Housing Delivery Test Action Plans

Each council has produced a Housing Delivery Test Action Plan. The purpose of the Action Plan is to identify key issues for the under-delivery of new housing in the district/borough and outlines what actions will be taken to increase and maintain delivery levels.

The plans outline a number of actions to increase housing delivery and ensure that this is maintained over the longer term.

To help increase future housing delivery, the councils would welcome suggestions on any future actions from interested stakeholders.

Current Action Plans - 2023

The 2023 Housing Delivery Test Action Plans (published June 2024) cover the period 2019/20, 2020/21 and 2021/22, and can be downloaded below:

• Adur Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2023 (published June 2024) (741KB)
• Worthing Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2023 (published June 2024) (731KB)

Previous action plans:

2022:

The 2022 Housing Delivery Test Action Plans cover the period 2018/19, 2019/20 and 2020/21, and can be downloaded below:

• Adur Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2022 (1,083KB)
• Worthing Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2022 (1,133KB)

2021:

The 2021 Housing Delivery Test Action Plans cover the period 2017/18, 2018/19 and 2019/20, and can be downloaded below:

• Adur Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2021 (408KB)
• Worthing Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2021 (1,324KB)

2020:

The 2020 Housing Delivery Test Action Plans covers the period 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 and can be downloaded below:

• Adur Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2020 (459KB)
• Worthing Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2020 (1,025KB)

2019:

The 2019 Housing Delivery Test Action Plans covers the period 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 and can be downloaded below:

• Adur Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2019 (440KB)
• Worthing Housing Delivery Test Action Plan 2019 (517KB)

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