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Draft strategic housing land availability assessment

The Strategic Land Availability Assessment is part of our preparation and gathering of evidence for the Local Development Framework (LDF).

The consultation period ended on 25 April 2008 but representations received on or before 9 May 2008 were accepted. A final report will be published in the winter of 2008 / 2009.

The Strategic Land Availability Assessment

Government policy requires local authorities to produce a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment for their housing market area that should:

• assess land availability by identifying buildings or areas of land (including previously developed land and Greenfield sites) that have development potential for housing, including within mixed-use developments;
• assess the likely level of housing that could be provided if unimplemented planning permissions were brought into development;
• assess the potential level of housing that can be provided on the identified land;
• where appropriate, evaluate past trends in which unplanned sites (known as windfall sites) have come forward for development and estimate the likely future implementation rate;
• identify constraints that might make a particular site unsuitable for development; · identify what action could be taken to overcome constraints on particular sites.

This work builds on previous studies and is designed to provide a more realistic and justifiable indication of capacity. It will ensure that the new planning policies within the Local Development Framework (LDF) are based on reliable evidence and are therefore deliverable.

View the draft documents

• Draft Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment 1.8mb
• SHLAA Appendix 1 - Methodology 200kb
• SHLAA Appendix 2 - Proforma 269kb
• SHLAA Appendix 3 - panel meeting notes 23kb
• SHLAA Appendix 4 - Submitted sites

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