To consider the key findings arising from the report of the Head of Planning and Development relating to the Strategic Housing Market Assessment Addendum. The addendum report has been prepared as a focused update of the Strategic Housing Market Assessment (January 2014) to deal with two specific issues; 1) the implications on the borough’s ‘objectively assessed need’ for housing of the most recent population projections published by the Office of National Statistics (ONS); and 2) the new National Planning Practice Guidance requirement to quantify the future need for care home places.