Vale of Aylesbury Plan Update - Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
A strategic housing land availability assessment (SHLAA) is a document which identifies sites in the district with a potential for residential development. It is used as evidence to help inform the planning process and is a requirement of Planning Policy Statement (PPS) 3:Housing and the emerging NPPF.
Our previous SHLAA was published in 2009. We are now reviewing this as part of the on-going evidence gathering for the Vale of Aylesbury Plan (VAP)
The VAP must have a robust evidence base to support the number of houses proposed. The 2012 SHLAA will help to demonstrate that there should be sufficient capacity in the district to meet the housing targets that the VAP will identify.
The SHLAA is an assessment to inform the VAP. It will not allocate sites and indeed not all sites assessed in the SHLAA will be taken forward as a site allocation in the VAP or any other development plan document. The housing targets, spatial distribution and allocations across the district will be determined in the VAP.
The SHLAA will identify sites with the potential for residential development and then, for each site, assess when and how much housing could be delivered. This will also help to inform a five year land supply as well as sites for the next six to ten years.
The work carried out to date on the VAP, particularly with town and parish councils to identify their growth aspirations, has fed into the first stages of the SHLAA. Parish and town councils will continue to have an input through involvement on the SHLAA steering group and on-going dialogue.
We have a record of developer promoted sites in connection with the 2009 SHLAA. This information will feed into the current review. Submission of new sites for the 2012 SHLAA review has now closed. However we do have a rolling register. Sites which are submitted to us from now on will be considered in the next SHLAA review (post 2012). To submit a site which has not previously been promoted to us, please send us the details including a map of the site and land ownership information.
Date Updated: 13/04/12