Strategic housing land availability assessment and development plan document preparation
Strategic housing land availability assessments (SHLAA) are a key tool in the development of local housing policy and proposals. The Planning Advisory Service has prepared a guidance note explaining how the preparation of your strategic housing land availability assessment and development plan documents relate to each other.
It is recommended that this note should be read alongside the Communities SHLAA guidance.
The report from the recent Planning Advisory Service 'Implementing your LDF' strategic housing land availability assessments seminar workshops provides your council with ideas on how to improve its local development framework through the shared experiences of local authorities preparing SHLAAs. Download Implementing your local development framework: strategic housing land availability assessment (PDF, 12 pages, 264KB).
The following questions have emerged through previous workshops on strategic housing land availability assessments (SHLAA) and are drawn together here for the assistance of practitioners. This document has been updated in accordance with changes to PPS12. Download the updated version: Strategic housing land availability assessment FAQs (PDF, 10 pages, 283KB).