Introduction

Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) requires all Local Planning Authorities to prepare a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). In March 2009 North Kesteven and the City of Lincoln published a Joint SHLAA covering their respective District boundaries, with West Lindsey having published their SHLAA a year earlier in March 2008. Given that a new Joint Planning Unit is to be established shortly for Central Lincolnshire (covering the City of Lincoln, North Kesteven and West Lindsey) all three authorities have been working together to revise and align certain elements of their evidence base including the SHLAA.

This SHLAA review has now been completed and replaces the previous SHLAAs. It provides a means of identifying potential land for housing development within a local authority area. It establishes the likely deliverability and developability of land (i.e. how, if and when it may come forward for development) and will be used to inform assessments about the supply of housing land over five, ten and fifteen-year periods in both districts.

The SHLAA forms part of the LDF evidence base, along with a range of other technical studies, and has been produced with the best available information at the time. It does not in any way prejudice decisions to be taken by the planning authorities in relation to preferred directions of growth, site identification in Development Plan Documents or the determination of planning applications.

The SHLAA is a continuous assessment. See the monitoring and review section below to find out what we are reviewing at the moment and how to submit a site for inclusion in the assessment.

Methodology

The SHLAA was prepared in accordance with PPS3 and the Government’s good practice guidance on undertaking SHLAAs and was produced with the input of a Housing Market Partnership (HMP) which included developers, planning consultants and registered social landlords. The good practice guidance is available to download through the Department for Communities and Local Government website (opens in new window). Full details of the project methodology is contained within the SHLAA Report, available to download below. 

All sites from the previous SHLAAs have been included in the 2010 SHLAA review; however, if you believe this not to be the case then please contact us.

Final Report

The draft final SHLAA report was presented to the Joint Planning Committee for Central Lincolnshire on 8 March 2010. The Committee resolved to approve the draft SHLAA report subject to amendment incorporating the responses to consultation with the HMP and final data verification. This has now been carried out and the report and appendices can be downloaded through the links below. Alternatively, copies of the final report and appendices are available to purchase as follows:

• Paper copy of the final report only £40 

• CD copy of the final report and maps £30

• CD copy of the maps only £10        

• Paper copies of the maps are available on request and will be charged at the Local Authority copy rate

Please contact us for further information

In addition if you would like a copy of previous SHLAAs then please contact the relevant authority.

Monitoring and Review

A number of issues have been identified in this SHLAA that require consideration for future reviews including the need to align the policy direction of the three authorities and their monitoring systems. This will be enabled through the creation of the Joint Planning Unit. The approach taken in the study to date is identified in section 7 of the report along with the proposed way forward.

Site Submission

The date for sites to be submitted as part of this review has now expired. Sites can still be submitted and these will be considered in the next annual review. Sites already submitted will be automatically reassessed through the review. Please use the site suggestion form available to download by clicking the link below:

SHLAA Site Suggestion Form (click to download, opens in new window)

Please note all information submitted as part of the SHLAA will be made available to the public to view.

Download the Report

Full Report 

Appendix 1 Settlement List

Appendix 2 Officer Working Group Terms of Reference

Appendix 3 Housing Market Partnership Terms of Reference

Appendix 4 Draft Methodology Consultation Response

Appendix 5 Site Suggestion Form

Appendix 6 Appraisal Criteria

Appendix 7 Deliverability Questionnaire

Appendix 8 Site Assessment Flowchart

Appendix 9 Sites Classified A

Appendix 9 Sites Classified B

Apendix 9 Sites Classified C

Appendix 9 Sites Classified D1

Appendix 9 Sites Classified D2

Appendix 9 Sites Classified D3

Appendix 10 Housing Market Partnership Involvement 

Site Maps

All sites in the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment have been mapped and are available to download below.  A list of sites in order of town/village name with map references is available to download here.

Lincoln Principal Urban Area Key Plan
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North Kesteven Key Plan
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West Lindsey Key Plan
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It has come to our attention that some sites were accidentally omitted from the SHLAA review even though they had been received prior to the site submission deadline. In order to rectify this error some minor amendments have been made to the SHLAA and these are incorporated in the document on our website.