The Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) is one of a range of evidence base and supporting studies produced or commissioned by use in the preparation of the new Local Plan.
The Local Plan will set out the planning policies to guide the development and land use in the district up to 2031.
The SHLAA is a technical assessment of the potential suitability, availability and achievability of sites for housing development. The sites assessed through the SHLAA were those submitted to us through:
- the Call for Sites undertaken in Summer 2011
- the Local Plan Issues and Options Report in Summer 2012
- the Local Plan Issues and Options 2 Report in early 2013
The updated SHLAA (June 2013) did not include some of the most up-to-date information which was used when compiling the Local Plan. We published an updated SHLAA in August 2013. The SHLAA (August 2013) replaces all the previous versions of the SHLAA.
The SHLAA (August 2013) report and its appendices (RD/Strat/120) are available to view and download from our document library.