Parish Plans, Parish Surveys and Local Housing Needs Surveys

Local surveys provide valuable data on the level of housing need.

Housing Requirement Studies provide data on housing need at a local level. Parish surveys and other housing need surveys can provide vital information about the housing need in a specific area. This helps in planning new developments. They can also help to show the need for affordable housing, and the level of community support for new development

Parish surveys can help to produce a Parish Plan, which sets out a vision for a parish.  This normally includes information on housing, traffic, crime, open space and other factors that are important to parish life. When carried out in a specific way, we can also adopt these Parish Plans as Supplementary Planning Guidance. This can help to steer future development.

The Cornwall Rural Community Council (CRCC) provides Parish Councils with advice on conducting parish surveys and producing Parish Plans. The CRCC can help secure funding. We also have a limited amount of funding ring fenced for parish surveys.

We encourage all parishes to consider conducting a parish survey.

For more information, please email affordablehousing@cornwall.gov.uk

Current housing needs survey

There are currently no live housing needs surveys.

Recent Housing needs survey results

• Carn Brea housing needs survey - full report
• Chacewater housing needs survey - full report
• Constantine housing needs survey - full report
• Crantock housing needs survey - full report
• Cubert housing needs survey - full report
• Cury housing needs survey - full report
• Dobwalls and Trewidland housing needs survey - full report
• Gwennap housing needs survey - full report
• Gwinear-Gwithian housing needs survey - full report
• Landulph housing needs survey - full report
• Lanhydrock housing needs survey - full report
• Lanivet housing needs survey - full report
• Lanner Judicial Review Case Summary (2013)
• Lezant housing needs survey - full report
• Ludgvan housing needs survey - full report
• Madron housing needs survey - full report (2020)
• Mylor housing needs survey - full report
• Padstow housing needs survey - full report
• Perranarworthal housing needs survey - full report
• Portreath housing needs survey - full report 
• Sithney housing needs survey - full report
• St. Agnes housing needs survey - full report
• St Enoder housing needs survey - full report
• St. Erme housing needs survey - full report 
• St Ewe housing needs survey - full report
• St. Germans housing needs survey - full report
• St Goran housing needs survey - full report 
• St. Just-in-Penwith housing needs survey - full report
• St.Levan housing needs survey-full report
• St. Mawgan in Pydar housing needs survey - full report
• St. Mellion and Pillaton housing needs survey - full report
• St Teath and Delabole housing needs survey - full report 
• Towendnack housing needs survey - full report
• Tywardreath and Par housing needs survey - full report
• Wendron housing needs survey-full report