Local Development Framework - Five year supply of deliverable land for housing

The Government’s Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) requires all local planning authorities to identify and maintain a rolling five-year supply of deliverable land for housing through a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA).

In July 2007, Communities and Local Government (CLG) published good practice guidance to advise planning authorities how best to carry out this assessment. Sites for inclusion in the five year supply should be: 

• Available – the site is available now 
• Suitable – the site offers a suitable location for development now and would contribute to the creation of sustainable, mixed communities 
• Achievable – there is a reasonable prospect that housing will be delivered on the site within the next five years.

The five year supply applies to the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2012.

Following further advice produced by CLG and published on The Planning Inspectorate website, this statement sets out the specific sites which are likely to deliver the five year housing land supply requirement. This includes: 

• Sites already under construction 
• Sites with full planning permission but where building work has yet to commence 
• Sites with outline planning permission
• Sites allocated through the Lewisham Unitary Development Plan, and the emerging Local Development Framework development plan documents, that are expected to come forward in the five year period.