Strategic Housing Market Assessment
In June 2008 our first Strategic Housing Market Assessment, or SHMA, was published. Commissioned by the sub-regional housing board (CRHB), the SHMA covers the whole Cambridge housing sub-region, and was created by a project team, steered by a wider partnership group of around 120 stakeholders.
We are now part way through updating the SHMA in 2009. Some of the chapters have been consulted on, and the final version launched. The updated chapters are listed under their section headings and all updated versions are labelled "2009" for clarity.
A second group of chapters are now open for consultation. To access these chapters, please click on "SHMA Consultations" below, and get back to us with any comments.
For a quick overview of our plans for all of the chapters now please view the latest SHMA Briefing Note here.
We would like to encourage your feedback and to prompt thoughts here are six simple questions:
- How readable is it?
- How understandable is it?
- Can you suggest ways to make it easier to read or to understand?
- Is anything included which you thought unnecessary or could be reduced?Â
- Was anything missed which you would like to see added?
- Do you have any other comments or suggestions?
You are very welcome to send comments on one or more chapters, you can simply write an email to the project team care of Sue Beecroft with your thoughts.
This consultation will remain open until mid January 2010. Then, following the second batch of consultation, we aim to launch all finalised chapters by the end of January 2010.
The SHMA enables us to provide better evidenced planning policy across the sub-region, and to underpin key decisions. It also provides a foundation of data, which we can grow and learn from in future.
The SHMA brings together a wealth of detail about housing markets, housing needs, past delivery of homes and plans for the future. We have gathered data across seven districts, however in some cases data was only available and comparable across the five Cambridgeshire districts.Â
The SHMA documents
We are not planning to produce printed copies of the SHMA as it is such a large document. Instead we hope partners will print off only the sections they need. Paper copies of the executive summary are available to help readers navigate through the first version of the SHMA.
If you have any queries about the SHMA or would like to make comments on the consultation drafts, please email sue.beecroft@cambridgeshirehorizons.co.uk.
SHMA Executive Summary
SHMA Executive Summary
Section A: Introduction to the SHMA
Section B: Cambridge Sub-regional Context
Section C: The current housing market
Section D: The future housing market
Section E: Housing need
Section F: Housing requirements of specific household groups
SHMA Appendices
SHMA Briefing Notes
SHMA Archive
SHMA Consultations