What is a SHLAA?
- A technical piece of work to assess the amount and nature of land available for housing development. It informs the plan making process of deciding housing land supply.
- A SHLAA is a government requirement. Yorkshire authorities are expected to complete their SHLAAs by the end of 2008.
How will a SHLAA be used?
- As evidence to inform spatial plans such as Leeds’s Core Strategy.
- To illustrate the sufficiency of land to meet housing needs.
- As evidence for deciding planning applications and dealing with appeals.
Key aspects
- A SHLAA has to be prepared with involvement of external interests, including house builders in a “Partnership”. The Leeds Partnership has been established with the first meeting in September 2008.
- A SHLAA has to invite landowners & developers to suggest possible sites.
- Government advice is clear that authorities should not rule out areas of countryside & green belt from the potential area of search.
Who is preparing the Leeds SHLAA?
- The Planning and Economic Policy service of Leeds City Council will lead the project including setting up the Partnership, creating a database of sites, launching the 'call for sites”, appraising sites and reporting to the Partnership.
What about making site suggestions?
- A 'Call for Sites' commenced during the week beginning 22 September and closed on 24 October 2008.
What will happen to sites included in the SHLAA?
- Sites will be assessed for their suitability, availability and achievability, and for dwelling capacity.
- Conclusions will be considered by the Partnership and a report will be available on this page when this exercise has been completed.
- Inclusion of sites in the SHLAA gives no endorsement that housing development is acceptable.
- Sites which accord with planning policy pertaining at the time can be developed.
- Development on sites which do not accord with planning policy pertaining at the time will be resisted.