Melton Strategic Housing Land Availability
Assessment
Local planning authorities have prepared annual Housing Land
Availability Assessments for many years. They monitor house
building against targets in development plans. More recently
they have been used to help establish whether there is a
5 years supply of housing land in their area. Sites in
the assessments usually had some form of planning status, either
through planning permission or a development plan allocation.
Planning Policy Statement 3 ‘Housing’ (2006) introduced the
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). SHLAA
supersedes the Housing Land Availability Assessment process and
involves a more comprehensive approach to the assessment of housing
land than Urban Capacity Studies.
Melton Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment
The Government advocates joint working for the preparation of
SHLAAs. Melton Borough is in the Leicester and Leicestershire
Housing Market Area. The local planning authorities in the housing
market area agreed to work together and follow a joint methodology
when preparing their SHLAAs. The ‘Leicester
& Leicestershire Housing Market Area SHLAA Methodology
Paper’ was the subject of a consultation exercise in November /
December 2007. The joint Methodology Paper follows closely the 10
stage process in the Government’s
Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments – Practice
Guidance document.
The Melton Strategic Housing
Land Availability Assessment 2011 has been published and is
available to download. The document will be used to establish
the amount of land that is available for house building in the
Borough and where challenge is made to housing land provision e.g.
planning appeals, the document will form an important part of the
Council’s response. The document is also a key part of
the evidence base for a Core Strategy with authorities being
advised to refrain from submitting Core Strategies if a SHLAA has
not been produced.
ARCHIVE Documents
SHLAA 2010
SHLAA 2009
SHLAA 2008
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