5 Year Housing Land Supply - April 2024
Brownfield Land Register
The council is required to maintain and publish a register of previously developed land (commonly known as “brownfield land”) which is suitable for residential development.
Strategic Housing & Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA)
The SHELAA is an evidence base document which contains sites that have been suggested to us for housing or employment development, including self-build or custom build plots.
Site suggestions can be submitted for any piece of land in the district, large or small, and which could include land within the Green Belt or Open Countryside. We carry out regular Calls for Sites to update the information in the SHELAA. We are not accepting new sites at the current time. If you register on our Consultation Portal, you will be notified automatically when we carry out a call for sites.
The SHELAA contains details of all sites suggested to us and they are recorded, and a basic assessment is carried out. However, including a site within the SHELAA does not mean that the Council thinks it is suitable for development. The SHELAA gives us a wide selection of sites to consider, but site allocation will only come through a review of our Local Plan. Our SHELAA FAQs will explain more.