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 Local Plan review and provide data for the Brownfield Land Register update.

The base date of this SHLAA is the 1 April 2021. This SHLAA provides the annual update to the previously published SHLAA (as at 1 April 2020), published in January 2020.

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 requirements.

To approve and publish the SHLAA as at 1 April 2021 as a key piece of evidence base for the emerging Places for Everyone (PfE) and Oldham’s Local Plan review and provide data for the Brownfield Land Register.

Option 1 - To approve and publish the SHLAA, as at 1 April 2021, in full to provide evidence for the housing land supply position and Local Plan review.
Option 2 - To not approve and publish the SHLAA, as at 1 April 2021.

Option 2 - To not approve and publish the SHLAA, as at 1 April 2021.

Consultation has been carried out with the Director of Economy and Portfolio Holder and approved as appropriate.

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