Housing Land - Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments (SHLAAs)
The Government's priority is for the delivery of new homes in sustainable mixed communities. National planning policy requires Council's to produce Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments (SHLAAs) in order to ensure that land availability does not constrain residential development. The SHLAA will be crucial background evidence for the housing policies in the Local Development Framework.
The SHLAA must identify specific deliverable sites for a 1-5 year period and specific developable sites for a 6-10 year period. Where it is not possible to identify specific sites in the 11-15 year period, broad locations for future growth should be indicated. Minimum housing figures for North East Lincolnshire are set out in the Regional Spatial Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber.
For several years the Council has produced basic housing land availability documents showing land suitable for new housing. In 2007 the document was modified into an interim SHLAA involving analysis of known housing sites to assess their developability. A 1-5 year supply meeting Regional Spatial Strategy requirements could not be identified and as a result the Council is now bringing forward a 'reserve' housing site in New Waltham through the Local Development Framework process.
SHLAA 2008
The Council is now preparing the SHLAA for 2008 and as a first step in the process all landowners, developers and other interested parties were requested to put forward new potential housing sites for initial consideration. At this stage these can be previously developed land or buildings (brownfield) or greenfield sites. Any remaining available sites from the SHLAA 2007 will be carried forward into the 2008 document.
All new sites put forward will be subject to a detailed discounting process whereby the Council will assess sites sequentially against constraints such as policy restrictions, physical problems or limitations, potential impacts and environmental conditions, etc. Sites which clearly fail these considerations will not as a matter of course be included in the SHLAA.
Where the SHLAA process indicates there is a shortfall of sites, other new suitable sites will be brought forward through the statutory Local Development Framework process in the forthcoming Allocations Development Plan Document.
It should be noted that inclusion in the SHLAA does not guarantee planning permission will be granted and exclusion does not preclude any land owner submitting a planning application for their land.
The deadline for submission of sites for consideration in the SHLAA 2008 was 5pm on Monday 14th April 2008. (NB Sites submitted after the deadline will not be included in the SHLAA08 process)
SHLAA Assessment Methodology
The Council is consulting on the SHLAA Assessment Methodology document which will be used by the Assessment Partnership to assess the suitability and potential of proposed sites for residential development. To find out more click on the following link: SHLAA Methodology Consultation
Lara Hattle
Tel: 01472 324278
Email: lara.hattle@nelincs.gov.uk
Ray Church
Telephone: 01472 324634
Email: ray.church@nelincs.gov.uk
Steve Davidson
Telephone: 01472 324269
Email: steve.davidson@nelincs.gov.uk
Postal Address
SHLAA Project Team
Spatial Futures and Intelligence
North East Lincolnshire Council
Origin Two
2 Origin Way
Grimsby
DN37 9TZ
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Previous Documents
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Housing Land 2007 (PDF file 7603KB)
The document is available to purchase in paper or on CD from the Spatial Intelligence Team use this link to get our Postal Address, please mark you requests FAO: Lara Hattle.
The cost of the document is:
Paper £45.60
CD £12.00
These prices include Postage and Packaging. Please make cheques payable to North East Lincolnshire Council
Housing Land Site Investigation 2007 link to consultation document.
Housing Land 2006 revised (9,082KB PDF file).
New Housing Land 2005 (PDF file)
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