Affordable Housing Needs Surveys
Affordable Housing Needs Surveys
GRCC is the provider of Affordable Housing Needs Surveys for Gloucestershire. These are arranged annually by the Gloucestershire Rural Housing Partnership (GRHP), whose members include Tewkesbury Borough Council, and Stroud, Cotswold, and Forest of Dean District Councils (i.e. the four rural local planning authorities in the county), as well as six Housing Associations and Homes England.
Affordable Housing Needs Surveys are the opportunity for residents in a geographical area to identify themselves as being in affordable housing need. We gather this data, alongside data drawn from a variety of other sources, to provide a robust planning evidence-base which is a mandatory requirement for the delivery of affordable housing.
We also produce Affordable Housing Needs Reports based on the ‘sustainability’ principle of planning. These provide an evidence-base to show where affordable housing is needed even where data on self-identified need is not available, to safeguard the future of thriving and active communities.
We also undertake bespoke Affordable Housing Needs Surveys, and would encourage you to get in touch as early as possible if you are interested in asking us to carry out a Housing Needs Survey on your organisation's behalf.
For more information please email affordablehousing@grcc.org.uk
October 2025 - our survey leads to a community-led housing project featured on Panorama
GRCC undertook a Housing Needs Survey on behalf of Eastington Parish Council which provided an evidence base to use for their first community-led housing development. This community-led housing project was featured in the BBC Panorama programme "The race to build 1.5 million homes" which you can watch on BBC Iplayer
Contact the project manager
Testimonials
Parish Clerk
Gloucestershire
I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you very much for attending last night's meeting at our Parish Council. The Councillors and some audience members who stayed to the end of the meeting expressed how good it was – appreciating how thorough and clear the talk was and in particular how well you answered the many varied questions and knew the subject so well. We hope you achieved what you had hoped for from the meeting too and look forward to working with you.
Parish Councillor
Gloucestershire
Many thanks for giving of your time last night to present the GRCC’s survey on housing need. Your presentation was well received and certainly contributed to a successful meeting on which we hope the PC can build in future.
Project manager
Barbara Pond
Barbara is our Head of Operations and Business Development, and manages GRCC projects spanning a wide range of areas including Affordable Housing and Community Wellbeing.