Monitoring West Dorset, Weymouth & Portland

Monitoring Reports are a statutory requirement under the Town and Country Planning Act. Local authorities are required to report on progress made against their local development scheme and the extent to which policies in the Local Plan are achieved.

The latest Annual Monitoring Report covers the 12 months from 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2017 and is available below. It is based on the policies of the  adopted West Dorset, Weymouth and Portland Local Plan.  Annual Monitoring Reports from previous years are also available:

Five year housing land supply

West Dorset District Council and Weymouth & Portland Borough Council are required to identify and update a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide five years worth of housing against their joint local plan requirement. The latest assessment of the five year housing land supply is based on housing land monitoring as at 1 April 2017 and is available below. The councils have prepared their assessment together in recognition of the joint working between the two councils, particularly in relation to the production of the joint Local Plan. The housing land supply assessment will be updated annually to reflect the most up-to-date available data. Five Year Land Supply Reports from previous years are also available: