Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for Cotswold District

The SHLAA is a technical study which the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) para. 159 (and previously PPS3: Housing) requires all local planning authorities to prepare. The primary role of the SHLAA is to identify and assess as many sites as possible that have housing potential throughout Cotswold District.

The SHLAA will provide evidence to help support the delivery of sufficient land to meet the community’s housing needs through the preparation of the Cotswold District Core Strategy and associated planning documents. These documents will eventually replace the current Local Plan and guide future development in the District to 2031.

Although the SHLAA will form an important evidence source, it is a technical document of potentially suitable housing sites. The SHLAA does not determine whether a site should be allocated for housing development in the emerging Local Plan. In other words, the inclusion of sites in the SHLAA does not mean that the Council necessarily considers them to be suitable for future housing development. It does not form local planning policy.

The survey and assessment work for the initial Cotswold SHLAA was carried out during 2008 and 2009. The assessment process followed the SHLAA Methodology 2008. This accorded with Practice Guidance published by the Government in July 2007.

The information that was gathered for every site has been brought together into a spreadsheet Sites Database 2009 .

The original comprehensive Report of the Cotswold District SHLAA (October 2010) is available to view, along with the supporting documents: Sites Database 2009; Cotswold SHLAA Methodology 2008; and Settlement Maps.

The Cotswold District SHLAA Report is also available to view at the Council Offices. Printed copies are available to purchase for £10.60 (plus £1.00 postage), and a CD is available on request for £5.00 (plus 80p postage). Please contact 01285 623000.

The 2012 Review of the SHLAA is now also available to view.

Review of the Cotswold SHLAA is scheduled into our monitoring work programme. This is needed to take account of more recent Residential Land Availability data and to put sites that have come forward since the original survey through the assessment process.

Please note that the latest housing trajectory and 5 year supply calculation are available on our annual monitoring web pages and they take into account more recent data than that contained in the SHLAA.