Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)

In accordance with Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3), the Council must be able to identify enough land suitable for housing development to cover the entire plan period of the the emerging Local Development Framework (LDF), starting from the proposed adoption date.

We currently plan to have the LDF adopted by 2012, our SHLAA will therefore cover the period of 2012-2027. The interim period until that date will be covered by the five year supply identified in Meeting the Five Year Housing Land Supply.

The SHLAA will attempt to establish a realistic and deliverable capacity for new housing within the main towns and villages of the borough in order to inform choices regarding housing location in both the Core Strategy and the Site Allocations documents. We anticipate that the document will be ready in the Spring. It will be available for download below.

A joint methodoly for the SHLAA was produced by Copeland and Allerdale Councils in 2008. Details regarding the Copeland SHLAA can be found here. The two councils will produce their own final SHLAAs.

Please note that the SHLAA is simply an assessment of settlement capacity for housing. It does NOT allocate land for development. If a site is included within the SHLAA this does not guarantee that it will be carried forward into the adopted development plan.  

We are currently consulting upon the final list of SHLAA sites. The SHLAA is available to download below along with a list of sites that have been discarded in this version of the study. Please ensure that any comments you may have reach us by 4:30pm on Friday 5 March 2010.


Downloadable Documents

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Adobe PDF format - download the viewerStrategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (March 2010) in PDF format11870540 Kb56526 mins 23 secs @ 28.8k, 28263 mins 11 secs @ 56k
Adobe PDF format - download the viewerSHLAA Consultation Summary in PDF format42 Kb12 secs @ 28.8k, 6 secs @ 56k
Adobe PDF format - download the viewerDiscarded SHLAA Sites in PDF format30612 Kb145 mins 46 secs @ 28.8k, 72 mins 53 secs @ 56k
Adobe PDF format - download the viewerSHLAA - Proposed Methodology in PDF format326 Kb1 min 33 secs @ 28.8k, 47 secs @ 56k

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last updated 12 February 2010