Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA)

In 2008 Richmondshire District Council (RDC) carried out a SHLAA (Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment). This was an investigation into historic housing land supply which determined that further research would be required to identify sufficient deliverable land and to assist to inform the development of the LDF (Local Development Framework). This document is available on the Council website.
Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) sets out the requirement for Local Planning Authorities (LPA) to carry out a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA).

PPS3 requires local planning authorities to identify a sufficient supply of deliverable housing sites for the first 5 years. A further supply of developable sites should also be identified for years 6 – 10 and ideally years 11 – 15 but where this is not possible indicate broad locations for future growth.


The SHELAA incorporates both a review of the existing SHLAA and information on the availability of economic land. The basis of information about the existing supply of economic land is held in the Employment Land Review 2007. The intention of this joint assessment is to provide more robust evidence, which should provide added clarity to decision making on the need, quality and type of housing and employment sites, and inform any future de-allocations and/or reallocations of sites within Development Plan Documents.

The Richmondshire SHELAA will form part of the evidence base which will inform the Local Development Framework (LDF).  The SHELAA is not a policy document, but provides evidence on the availability of land in Richmondshire for housing and employment uses.

Please click here for the SHELAA 2010

Please click here for Table 1 - List of all Sites considered in the Assessment

Please click here for Table 2 - 'The Land Supply Site List'

For further information, please contact the Housing Delivery Manager

By email: ldf@richmondshire.gov.uk

By Telephone: 01748 827021





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