Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment

What is a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)?

The Darlington SHLAA is an assessment of the potential of a borough to accommodate housing development over a period of 15 years from the date of adoption of the LDF Core Strategy (anticipated to be 2010).

The SHLAA will form part of the evidence base for the emerging Local Development Framework (LDF), and inform the identification of potential new housing sites to be allocated in the LDF. The SHLAA however, does not in itself determine whether a site should be allocated for housing development; this will be done in a subsequent Development Plan Document (DPD).

The policy context to SHLAAs is provided by Planning Policy Statement 3 “Housing” (PPS3). PPS3 sets out a new policy approach for housing, including the identification of sufficient land for the plan period of 15 years, ensuring that the first 5 years of sites are allocated and developable and that the 5-year supply is maintained as sites are developed out.

SHLAA Update 3 Autumn 2011

This third annual update to Darlington's Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) was published in January 2012.  As with the previous updates, it identifies and assesses new potential housing sites, and where appropriate, uses new information to amend the assessment of sites identified in previous SHLAA exercises. Information on SHLAA sites was then added to new data on housing completions and new sites with planning permission in order to again build a comprehensive and accurate picture of housing delivery in future years. This third update, together with its appendices, can be viewed below:

Submitting sites for assessment

To submit a site in Darlington Borough for assessment in the 2011 SHLAA Update, please download the Assessment Pack [word document], fill it out to the best of your knowledge, and send it to the email or postal addresses given below. Please also send a map with the boundary of the site for assessment clearly outlined in red. Work on the 2011 Update is due to start in late Summer/early Autumn.

SHLAA Update 2 December 2010

This second annual update to Darlington's Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) was published in December 2010. As the first update, it identifies and assesses new potential housing sites, and where appropriate, uses new information to amend the assessment of sites identified in the first update of Autumn 2009. Information on SHLAA sites was then added to new data on housing completions and new sites with planning permission in order to again build a comprehensive and accurate picture of housing delivery in future years. This second update, together with its appendices, is available by clicking on the links below:

SHLAA update 1 Autumn 2009

The first annual update to Darlington’s SHLAA was published in December 2009. The update identified and assessed new potential housing sites, and used new information to amend the assessment of sites identified in the March 2009 SHLAA. Information on SHLAA sites was then added to new data on housing completions and new sites with planning permission in order to build a comprehensive and accurate picture of housing delivery in future years. The first update, together with its appendices and an executive summary is available to view by clicking on the links below (links are as existing under this subheading).

Darlington SHLAA March 2009

The Council published its first SHLAA on 31st March 2009.

Planning and Environmental Policy
Town Hall
Darlington
DL1 5QT

Tel: 01325 388644
Fax: 01325 388616   

planning.policy@darlington.gov.uk