Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment

The National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) requires local planning authorities to produce a Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA).

The SHELAA (2020) sets out the long list of sites which were nominated to the Council. These sites do not have any planning status. Including them in the SHELAA does not mean that they will be developed in the future.

Latest assessments:

• Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA) main report - April 2020
• Appendix 1 - Housing Sites
• Appendix 2 - Employment Sites
• Appendix 3 - Excluded Sites
• Appendix 4 - Commitments (April 2020)
• Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment Methodology (April 2018)
• Windfall Study 2020

Site Submissions

The Council invited individuals, landowners, developers and site promoters to put forward sites to be considered through the forthcoming update to the Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA).  The SHELAA will be a crucial piece of our evidence base for the District Plan Review which is now underway. 

Sites can be submitted for a range of uses including, but are not limited to: 

• Housing (i.e. affordable housing and self-build and custom housebuilding);
• Specialist housing (i.e. housing for older people; C2);
• Gypsy and Traveller sites;
• Employment; and
• Infrastructure (i.e. community uses, renewable energy).

The most recent formal call for sites closed on the 19th February 2021.  Submissions can still be made but their inclusion in the forthcoming SHELAA cannot be guaranteed.

Parish maps

Albourne

• Albourne Assessed sites map

Ansty and Staplefield 

• Ansty and Staplefield Assessed sites map

Ardingly 

• Ardingly Assessed sites map

Ashurst Wood 

• Ashurst Wood Assessed sites map

Balcombe 

• Balcombe Assessed sites map

Bolney 

• Bolney Assessed sites map

Burgess Hill 

• Burgess Hill Assessed sites map

Cuckfield 

• Cuckfield Assessed sites map

East Grinstead 

• East Grinstead Assessed sites map

Hassocks 

• Hassocks Assessed sites map

Haywards Heath 

• Haywards Heath Assessed sites map

Horsted Keynes 

• Horsted Keynes Assessed sites map

Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common 

• Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common Assessed sites map

Lindfield and Lindfield Rural 

• Lindfield Assessed sites map
• Lindfield Rural Assessed sites map

Slaugham 

• Slaugham Assessed sites map

Turners Hill 

• Turners Hill Assessed sites map

Twineham 

• Twineham Assessed sites map

West Hoathly 

• West Hoathly Assessed sites map

Worth 

• Worth Assessed sites map

The South Downs National Park Authority directly receives all new Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) site submissions within its area.

More information:

• South Downs National Park Authority - SHLAA