The Council has operated under the tilted balance repeatedly due to its chronic failure to demonstrate a 5-year housing land supply

✅ EHDC – 2022 Statement (as of 1 April 2022):

“The Council is unable to demonstrate a five-year housing land supply… This results in the application of paragraph 11(d) of the NPPF – the tilted balance.”

📎 Source (EHDC):

https://cdn.easthants.gov.uk/public/documents/Five%20year%20housing%20land%20supply%202022.pdf

https://www.easthants.gov.uk/media/8717/download?inline

✅ EHDC – 2023 Statement (as of 1 April 2023):

“The Council can demonstrate a 4.5-year supply… therefore the tilted balance in paragraph 11(d) of the NPPF applies.”

📎 Source (EHDC):
https://www.easthants.gov.uk/media/6679/download?inline
(Five Year Housing Land Supply 2023–2028, published Jan 2023)

✅ EHDC – 2024 Position Statement (as of 1 April 2024):

“The Council is unable to demonstrate a 5-year supply of deliverable housing sites. This equates to a 2.7-year supply.”

“As such, the ‘tilted balance’ set out in paragraph 11(d) of the NPPF is engaged.”

📎 Source (EHDC):
https://www.easthants.gov.uk/media/8717/download?inline
(Five Year Housing Land Supply 2024–2029, published Jan 2024)