Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)
Update for March 2024
Background
In line with the government's Planning Policy Guidance, every year we update our information on the availability of land for new housing. This is done accurate to 31 March each year, but in arrears because of the need to collect information which is accurate for the end of the financial year. This SHLAA is for 31 March 2024 and supersedes the SHLAA Update published for 31 March 2023.
A full SHLAA, involving a call-out for sites from landowners, developers and others, is not produced every year. The last full SHLAA was in 2017. After that on an approximately annual basis, Updates were produced based on new information from planning applications, monitoring of completions of homes, contact with landowners and developers, development on the Council's own sites, and other information. However, the current document is a full new SHLAA, removing sites in the 2017 SHLAA or the last few updates where there is no prospect of development, increasing the minimum site size from 3 to 5 homes, and adding many new sites not only from recent planning applications but sites submitted in the Calls for Sites of which the most recent was concluded early in 2024, including greenfield Green Belt sites which are not currently suitable for development but which may be considered in future SHLAAs or Updates to this SHLAA, as part of the evidence base for the preparation of a new Local Plan.
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) 2024 Final Report (Word doc, 52 KB)
Appendix 1: Table of Sites (Word doc, 214 KB)
Appendix 2: Trajectory (Excel doc, 35 KB)