SHLAA - 2012 UPDATE_FINAL(Low Res) - Allerdale Borough Council

Allerdale
Local Plan
Evidence Base
1 Introduction
National planning policy requirements in
relation to housing supply
This Strategic Housing Land Availability
Assessment (“SHLAA”) has been prepared by
Allerdale Borough Council (“the Council”) to
provide an assessment of the amount of land
available for housing development both
currently and in the future.
A top priority for Government is to ensure that
land availability is not a constraint on the
delivery of new housing. The new National
Planning Policy Framework (“NPPF”) states
that local planning authorities should prepare
Strategic Housing Land Availability
Assessments to establish realistic
assumptions about the availability, suitability
and the likely economic viability of land to
meet the identified need for housing during the
plan period.
Purpose of this SHLAA document
The emerging Allerdale Core Strategy will
eventually replace the current Local Plan that
was adopted in 1999.
The Core Strategy sets out the Council’s longterm
vision for the Borough for the next 15
years. This includes the target for housing
delivery over the plan period, and also the
general geographic distribution of
development within the district.
Before the Core Strategy can be formally
adopted it must successfully pass an
examination in public and be found ‘sound’. In
order to do this the Council must demonstrate
that the housing strategy is deliverable.
In order to demonstrate that the housing
strategy is deliverable, the Council must
demonstrate that there is:
i. An adequate supply of housing land to
fulfil the overall target set out in the plan.
ii.
iii.
Enough housing land within each of the
key settlements and tiers of settlement
hierarchy to deliver the spatial strategy
Sufficient ‘deliverable’ sites in order to
provide a supply for the first five years of
the plan
Commenting on the SHLAA document
The Council would welcome any comments in
relation to the content of this updated SHLAA
document.
If you have any comments, including those in
1 SHLAA: Main Report