Monitoring

Five-year housing land supply position statements 

National policy and guidance establishes that Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) should identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide 5 years’ worth of housing against their housing requirement. The council has prepared a 5-year housing land supply position statement that will be updated at least on an annual basis. 

Land availability assessments 

The council’s land availability assessment identifies a potential future supply of land that is considered to be suitable, available and achievable over the next 15 years. The assessment is an important source of evidence to inform plan and decision-making, the identification of a 5-year supply of housing land, and can inform, as well as make use of, sites in the brownfield land register. 

The land availability assessment is an iterative assessment that the council reviews and updates regularly.  

The Land Availability Assessment 2023 was published in February 2024 but contained an error regarding the total number of units with planning permission. This has now been corrected in the version above.