Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

Paragraph 54 of Planning Policy Statement 3 (PPS3): Housing requires Local Planning Authorities (LPA's) to identify sufficient deliverable sites to deliver housing over a five year period, through a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). To be considered deliverable, sites should be:

• available - the site is available now
• suitable - the site offers a suitable location for development now and would contribute to the creation of sustainable, mixed communities
• achievable - there is a reasonable prospect that housing will be delivered on the site within five years

Local Planning Authorities should also identify a further supply of specific, developable sites for years six to ten and, where possible, for years 11 to 15 (PPS3, paragraph 55).

2010-2025 Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

The city council published its first SHLAA in March 2008, covering the period between 2008 and 2023. The 2008 Assessment has been updated and rolled forward to cover the period from 2010 to 2025, informing the Draft Core Strategy, and reflecting changing housing market conditions. The assessment was undertaken in accordance with PPS3, and the Department for Communities and Local Government Practice Guidance on undertaking a SHLAA, and it can be downloaded at the bottom of the page.

The assessment demonstrated a five year supply of deliverable housing sites when considered against the requirements of the Regional Spatial Strategy. An excess of deliverable and developable sites was also identified to meet the requirements over a ten year period.

Individual site assessments and site plans can be made available on request.

Update to the 2010-2025 assessment

Work has commenced on a full update to the 2010-2025 SHLAA, covering the period from 2011. The initial findings of this update informed the core strategy pre-publication changes and associated housing land supply annex. It is anticipated that the new SHLAA will be published early in 2012.

As part of the update to the SHLAA the city council would welcome your comments on the 2010-2025 SHLAA, particularly in terms of the methodology and the general findings of the Assessment. In addition, comments relating to individual sites included in the study would be welcomed, particularly in terms of their:

• suitability, availability and achievability for housing (and therefore deliverability/ developability for housing)
• total yield/density
• mix of dwellings, in terms of houses and apartments
• estimated time period for the completion of dwellings, and the phasing of development

The city council is also inviting interested parties to submit sites that might have the potential to deliver new housing in the future, and which have not already been assessed by the city council as part of the 2010-2025 SHLAA. Sites should be greater than 0.25ha in size (or above 0.1ha in the town and regional centres). A proforma should be completed for each suggested site, and this is available to download below.

Who to contact

Name

Spatial Planning

Address

Sustainable Regeneration Directorate
Salford City Council
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
Salford
M27 5BY
Map to this location

Telephone

0161 793 3782

Email

plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk

This page was last updated on 9 November 2011