Decision details

The SHLAA is a technical document identifying land that might have potential for housing at some stage in the future, as required by the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). NPPF states that a housing assessment should be used to establish realistic assumptions about the suitability, availability and the likely achievability (economic viability) of land to meet the identified housing need. This then determines whether a site could form part of the housing land supply and, if so, when it is expected to be developed.

As well as providing evidence for the housing land position, it will inform the review of the GMSF and Local Plan and provide data for the Brownfield Land Register. The base date of this SHLAA is the 1st April 2020. This SHLAA provides the annual update to the previously published SHLAA, published in December 2019.

Finally, the SHLAA discusses the latest housing requirements and whether we can demonstrate that there is enough land in the five-year deliverable housing land supply to meet these requirements.

Approved as per option 1 – Publish the SHLAA, as at 1 April 2020, in full to provide evidence for the housing land supply position and Local Plan review as per the recommendations [set out within the report].

Option 1 – Publish the SHLAA, as at 1 April 2020, in full to provide evidence for the housing land supply position and Local Plan review as per the recommendations [within the report].
Option 2 – Not publish the SHLAA as at 1 April 2020.

Option 2 – Not publish the SHLAA as at 1 April 2020.

The SHLAA is not a statutory process and as such there are no prescribed consultation requirements. The SHLAA will be published on the council’s website. Suggestions for further sites will be invited through an on-going Call for Sites process and will form part of future SHLAA reviews.

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