Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

Local authorities are required to carry out a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) to identify future sources of land for housing. Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments are a key component of the evidence base to support the delivery of sufficient land for housing to meet the community's need for more homes. These assessments are required by national planning policy, set out in Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3).

Review of the Current SHLAA - CALL FOR SITES 2012

The Council is about to update the 2010 SHLAA report to include any new sites and update any of the existing ones as necessary.  Additionally, this year we are also seeking potential employment sites to include in an employment land review.

All sites submitted will be individually assessed by the Plans, Policies and Place-Making Team. The submission of a site DOES NOT guarantee that it will be allocated for development or receive favourable consideration if an application for residential planning permission is submitted. Respondents are reminded that applications for planning permission are determined against the adopted development plan and any other material considerations.

Should you wish to put forward any sites for consideration, please fill in the proforma below and provide us with a site location plan of the site.  All forms should be returned to charnwood2026@charnwood.gov.uk or Plans, Policies and Place-Making Team, Charnwood Borough Council, Southfields Road, Loughborough, LE11 2TN by Friday 16th March 2012 to guarantee it’s inclusion in the 2012 assessment:

Employment & Housing Land Availability Assessment - Proforma (Word Document, 0.1 Mb)

How will the SHLAA inform future plans?

The assessment will form a critical part of the evidence base for future development plan documents.The SHLAA exercise is a study of housing potential and does not itself allocate sites for development. However the work undertaken within the SHLAA will provide key evidence to inform the Core Strategy and Site Allocations document. The outcome of the SHLAA will ultimately provide a list of sites which will help to inform future housing allocations and development control decisions. These sites will all need to be in suitable locations that would contribute to the Government's objectives of creating sustainable, mixed communities.

What are the core requirements of the assessment?

As a minimum the assessment should provide the following core outputs:

• A list of sites, cross-referenced to maps showing locations and boundaries

• Assessment of the deliverability of each identified site to determine when an identified site is realistically expected to be developed

• Potential quantity of housing that could be delivered on each site identified

• Constraints on the delivery of identified sites

Previous Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments

Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment - 2010

Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment - 2009

Charnwood Housing Land Availability Assessment - 2007

The Council; updated its Urban Capacity Study with a Housing Land Availability Assesssment in line with the guidance set out in PPS3 in 2007. It can be viewed below:

• Housing Land Availability Assessment 2007 (PDF Document, 9 Mb)