Christchurch Borough and East Dorset District Monitoring Reports

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.

Monitoring reports available

An Annual Monitoring Report for the period 2020 to 2021 has been produced for the East Dorset area. The report reviews progress of local plan preparation against the timetable set out in the Local Development Scheme. It also shows delivery and implementation of the joint Christchurch and East Dorset Local Plan (Part 1 - Core Strategy) (adopted April 2014), and saved site specific former Local Plan policies. The report can be viewed using the following link:

Previous monitoring reports generally covering the period 1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018 can be accessed using the table below. These reports cover both Christchurch and East Dorset.

Monitoring reports
Monitoring report	Scope/description	Period covered	Date updated
1. Progress Report - Local Plan Document Preparation and Duty to Cooperate	considers the progress of preparation of Local plan documents and Supplementary Planning Guidance documents (SPD) against the programme set out in the joint (Christchurch and East Dorset Councils) Local Development Scheme (version 2 July 2016) details and actions the authorities' undertook to fulfil the requirements of the Duty to Cooperate	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	February 2019
2. Housing Delivery	housing completions 5 year supply and housing trajectory (whether the Councils have enough housing sites to meet its housing targets for the next 5 years) housing delivery in Christchurch urban extension and new neighbourhoods housing densities and design market and affordable housing completions by bedroom number affordable housing -green field/brown field completions affordable housing completions by tenure housing and accommodation for elderly and vulnerable people delivery of pitches for Gypsies and Travellers	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	January 2019
3. Employment	completions (hectares and floorspace) employment land availability progress on employment site allocations Bournemouth Airport and its business parks employment in rural areas	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	March 2019
4. Retail and Town Centres	vitality of town centres retail completions in town centres	1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018	February 2019
5. Historic Environment	listed buildings and conservation areas	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	January 2019
6. Natural Environment	changes in areas of biodiversity importance progress on Suitable alternative natural green space (SANGS)	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	January 2019
7. Sustainable Development and Renewable Energy	monitoring data on carbon emissions, water and energy efficiency is not currently available. We will review these indicators in the light of evolving national standards provision of decentralised and low carbon energy	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	February 2019
8. Flood Management and Mitigation	planning permissions granted contrary to Environment Agency (EA) advice number of planning permissions granted in flood risk zones 3a and 2	1 April 2015 to 31 March 2018	March 2019
9. Transport	delivery of transport strategy and prime transport corridors strategic transport improvements	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	January 2019
10. Infrastructure	Section 106 contributions received and spent Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL)	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	December 2018
11. Site Specific Policies	Local Plan Part 1 policies Christchurch Local Plan saved policies East Dorset Local Plan saved policies	1 April 2012 to 31 March 2018	January 2019
12. Open space and recreation	to follow	not yet available	not yet available
13. Community facilities and services	to follow	not yet available	not yet available
Note: Tourism	The Christchurch and East Dorset Strategy Monitoring Framework submitted to the Core Strategy public examination in 2013 (document ref SD30) says we will monitor losses and gains of visitor attractions and tourism accommodation. However policy PC6 does not protect against losses of visitor accommodation and has no measurable quantification regarding tourism attractions, so we will not be monitoring tourism issues.	not being monitored	not being monitored