Bedford Borough Council is required to monitor the performance of adopted planning policies and progress in producing new documents included in the Local Development Scheme. To do this, three kinds of document are made available each year.
The first is the Council’s Five Year Supply of Deliverable Housing Sites statement. In line with national policy, this statement sets out the latest position on the Council’s housing land supply.
Secondly, the Authority’s Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) is a comprehensive document which includes information across a range of indicators to monitor the application and performance of local plan policies. It also includes information relating to neighbourhood plans and duty to cooperate activity.
In recent years, the AMR has been divided into thematic parts with each part published separately. However, from the 2021/22 monitoring year the AMR is being prepared as a single document.
The AMR is made available in December each year to cover the preceding financial year (so the AMR published in December 2024 will be for the 2023/24 financial year).
In order to make important information relating to housing and employment activity available sooner, separate and focused Housing and Employment Monitoring Reports are published in May/June each year.
All documents are in PDF format
Latest reports
Documents relating to five year land supply:
Latest monitoring reports covering the period 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2024:
- Annual Monitoring Report 2023-2024
- Housing Monitoring Report 2023-24
- Employment Monitoring Report 2023-24
Annual Monitoring Reports:
Previous reports
Previous thematic monitoring reports and single combined reports dating back to 2010 are below:
Housing
- Housing Monitoring Report (2022-23)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2021-22)
- Interim Housing Monitoring Report (2020-21)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2019-20)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2018-2019)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2017-18)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2016-17)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2015-16)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2014-15)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2013-14)
- Housing Monitoring Report (2012-13)
Employment
- Employment Monitoring Report (2022-23)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2021-22)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2020-21)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2019-20)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2018-19)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2017-18)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2016-17) (updated 20 November 2017)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2015-16) (updated 26 October 2016)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2014-15)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2013-14)
- Employment Monitoring Report (2012-13)
Heritage
- Heritage and Built Environment Monitoring (2019-2020)
- Heritage and Built Environment Monitoring (2018-2019)
- Heritage and Built Environment Monitoring (2017-18)
- Heritage and Built Environment Monitoring (2016-17)
- Heritage and Built Environment Monitoring (2015-16)
Major projects
- Major Projects Monitoring (2017-2018)
- Major Projects Monitoring (2016-17)
- Major Projects Monitoring (2015-16)
Environment quality and open space
- Environment Quality and Open Space Monitoring (2016-2017)
- Environment Quality and Open Space Monitoring (2015-16)
- Environment Quality and Open Space Monitoring (2014-15)
Social and community
- Social and Community Monitoring (2016-17)
- Social and Community Monitoring (2015-16)
- Social and Community Monitoring (2014-15)
Transport and traffic
- Transport and Traffic Monitoring (2016-17)
- Transport and Traffic Monitoring (2015-16)
- Transport and Traffic Monitoring (2014-15)
Plan implementation
In previous years the monitoring report was completed as one large document. These can be viewed below.
- Bedford Borough Planning Monitoring Report 2013 to 2014
- Bedford Borough Monitoring Report 2012 to 2013
- Bedford Borough Monitoring Report 2011 to 2012
- Annual Monitoring Report 2010 to 2011
Infrastructure
Information on the Borough's progress with infrastructure monitoring can be found in the CIL reports, which can be found on the Community Infrastructure Levy webpage and S106 reports which are located on the Planning Obligations webpage.