Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)

Hart has prepared a Draft Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for consultation. The study will inform the preparation of Hart’s Local Development Framework.

The assessment aims to identify sites which could be used for housing, assesses their potential housing capacity and when they are likely to be developed.  Types of sites considered include:

• vacant and derelict land and buildings
• surplus public sector land
• land in non-residential use which may be suitable for re-development for housing, such as commercial buildings or car parks, including as part of mixed use development
• additional housing opportunities in established residential areas

The report also lists a number of sites outside existing settlements, some of which have been identified as candidate sites for plan-making purposes.  Some of these sites may be needed to meet Hart’s housing allocation in the emerging South East Plan.  Some sites have been identified as potentially suitable for affordable housing (rural exception sites).

Please note that the SHLAA report is not an expression of District Council policy. The inclusion of a site or a broad location within the SHLAA report does not necessarily mean that it will either be allocated for development in the forthcoming Local Development Framework or that a planning permission will be granted.

• SHLAA consultation draft main report 374KB

Hart first consulted on the SHLAA in summer 2008 with a “call for sites” exercise.  A consultation draft SHLAA report has now been produced.   This second consultation is both an opportunity to comment on the contents of the draft SHLAA report and to submit any additional sites.  A response form and separate site assessment form can be downloaded below. Site submissions should ideally include a 1:1250 scale map.

• SHLAA site assessment form 70.3KB
• SHLAA site assessment form (word format) 46KB
• SHLAA response form 67.7KB
• SHLAA response form (word format) 168KB

Please send your comments and any site submissions to the address below or alternatively, returned via e-mail to planningpolicy@hart.gov.uk

Planning Policy
Planning and Environmental Services
Hart District Council
Harlington Way
Fleet GU51 4AE

In light of requests from the public and stakeholders, members have decided to extend the consultation for two weeks,to 5pm Monday 6 July 2009. Please note that information submitted regarding sites as part of the SHLAA will be within the public domain.

The final SHLAA report will take account of comments received and additional sites submitted.  It will be made available to the public via the Hart website in late February/early March 2010.  It is currently proposed that the SHLAA will be updated on an annual basis.

• Appendix 1: Sites with Planning Permission - Under Construction (as of 1 April 2008) 28.7KB
• Appendix 2: Large and Small Sites with Planning Permission – Construction yet to commence (as of 1st April 2008) 64.8KB
• Appendix 3: Individual site assessments for ‘other’ deliverable sites 2.55MB
• Appendix 4: Individual site assessments for developable sites 1.01MB
• Appendix 5a: Site assessments for LDF candidate sites – Hook and Yateley 3.82MB
• Appendix 5b: Site assessments for LDF candidate sites – Fleet and Church Crookham 2.67MB
• Appendix 5c:  Site assessments for LDF candidate sites – Odiham/North Warnborough and Hartley Wintney 649KB
• Appendix 6a: Site Assessments for Excluded Sites at Hook, Yateley, Blackwater, Eversley 5.89MB
• Appendix 6b: Site Assessments for Excluded Sites at Fleet and Church Crookham, Crookham Village, Dogmersfield 2.01MB
• Appendix 6c: Site Assessments for Excluded Sites at North Warnborough, Odiham, Potbridge, South Warnborough 1.23MB
• Appendix 6d:  Site Assessments for Excluded Sites at Crondall, Ewshot, Winchfield 1.01MB
• Appendix 6e: Site Assessments for Excluded Sites at Hartley Wintney, Hartfordbridge, Rotherwick 678KB

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Updated 24 December 2009