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 - The call for sites 2012 is now closed.

The call for sites has now closed and the 2012 SHLAA document once completed will be available on this webpage.

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 planning permission is submitted. Respondents are reminded that applications for planning permission are determined against the adopted development plan and any other material considerations.

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, 9.02 Mb)