**Document:** First Time Buyer Housing Summary
**Application:** 04/00966/B — Residential development comprising 177 dwellings with associated roads sewers and landscaping
**Decision:** Refused
**Decision Date:** 2005-03-11
**Parish:** Braddan
**Document Type:** report / planning_statement
**Source:** https://planningportal.im/a/75927-braddan-fields-534051-534052-dwelling/documents/1411244

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# First Time Buyer Housing Summary

3.4 The Department’s indication of first time buyer demand is the First Time Buyer Register.

The application forms containing the applicant’s details were updated in the Autumn of 2003 to provide greater details by which the Department can plan development to meet the needs and aspirations of the applicants.

I am satisfied that the Department’s current targets of 120 properties per annum average is a reasonable assessment to meet the requirements of Manx First Time Buyers.

3.5 Some questions have been raised regarding the scale of proposed provision of affordable housing and I have therefore updated and amended the Summary of Projects to highlight the need to allow for uncertainty and changes to the programme (attached).

The Summary Report is a “living document” and evolves on a monthly basis as sites are considered, proposals developed, and planning applications considered.

In planning a programme of projects, which have to be taken through many detailed stages before being brought to site, the Department must build in some contingency to allow for possible failures.

Already since May one project at Archallagan has been removed from the list and difficulties with legal agreements have delayed the development process at Crossag Farm.

The revised summary report which I attach to this supplementary statement identifies those sites which are committed. And it separately identifies sites in respect of which there is a doubt.

The programme of projects therefore will not quite meet a target average of 120 properties per annum (at present) and if any further projects do not materialise will be severely compromised.

3.6 In conclusion I believe that the programme is therefore not proposing an overprovision of first time buyer housing.

R.C. Senior, F.R.I.C.S.,
Director of Estates and Housing

September 2004

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*Data sourced from the Isle of Man public planning register under the [Isle of Man Open Government Licence](https://www.gov.im/about-this-site/open-government-licence/).*
*Canonical page: https://planningportal.im/a/75927-braddan-fields-534051-534052-dwelling/documents/1411244*