Bournemouth & Poole Housing Market Area - Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA)

As part of a government-led programme, all Councils are required to assess the amount of land available for housing development and produce a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA). Assessments will provide the evidence base to support the delivery of sufficient land to meet the community's need for more homes by ensuring the managed delivery of sufficient land for housing.

Joint working across Dorset

The national Practice Guidance for SHLAA recommends that assessments be completed for whole Housing Market Areas (HMAs). All councils in the Bournemouth and Poole HMA (Bournemouth Borough, Christchurch Borough, East Dorset District, North Dorset District, Borough of Poole and Purbeck District councils, with support from Dorset County Council) have therefore agreed to work together to produce separate assessments under a common methodology. Results will then be compiled into an HMA-wide report on land available for new housing.

All local authorities in the Bournemouth & Poole HMA have completed their assessments for 2007/08; the results are available on their respective website (see below for Poole's SHLAA). Please view the Contacts List provided on this page to identify which officer is undertaking the study in each council area.

Annual review - 2009

National policy requires that every local authority update the SHLAA on an annual basis to maintain a current supply of potential housing land. Forms are available from this web page if you wish to submit a site to any of the local authorise for assessment in the 2009 round of SHLAA. The forms available are:

• 'SHLAA 1' - for sites which already have a valid planning permission
• 'SHLAA 2' - for new sites, not with permission or previously submitted

Borough of Poole SHLAA

Production on the Borough of Poole's SHLAA began in October 2007, following the production of the Government's final Practice Guidance. The production of the Council's Assessment in 2007/08 was overseen by a Panel of local stakeholders which met on four occasions during the evidence gathering and production stages of the assessment.

The Borough's first SHLAA report with a base date of April 2007 can be viewed here, and the update to April 2008 can be viewed here. Please note the April 2008 SHLAA update provides the Council's most up-to-date demonstration of a five, ten and 15-year land supply, superseding the previous report.

Submission of New Sites

As the SHLAA will be updated annually, the Council continues to welcome the submission of land, which will be considered as part of the assessment. If you would like to submit a site, please complete the 'SHLAA 2' Form, see right, and return to the address below. Submitted sites will be assessed annually or when it is deemed necessary to comprehensively review the Council's SHLAA.

Relevant Links:

Planning and Regeneration Services
Civic Centre, Poole
BH15 2RU

Tel: 01202 633321

Email: planning@poole.gov.uk