Five year housing land supply position (1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029)

The government has an objective of significantly boosting the supply of housing. In order to maintain supply and delivery of housing, paragraph 78 of the December 2024 National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) requires local planning authorities to identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide five years’ worth of housing against their housing requirements with an additional buffer of 5% or 20% depending on local circumstances.

Salford City Council has published a housing and economic land availability assessment covering the period between 2024 and 2042. As part of this, the number of net additional dwellings that are likely to be delivered over the five-year period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2029 has been identified as 12,563.

The five-year land supply position is set out in detail in the report and associated annexes (including ward plans) that are available to download below. The report identifies that there is a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide 7.2 years-worth of housing against Salford's housing requirement in Places for Everyone for the period 1 April 2024 to 31 March 2029. When regard is had to oversupply between 2022 to 2024, there is an 8.9 year supply. 

Given the above, the presumption in favour of sustainable development as set out in paragraph 11d) of the NPPF does not apply.  

This page was last updated on 13 January 2025