The land availability assessment (LAA) is a technical study which informs the local plan. It assesses land for its development potential and forms the basis of a list of sites to be considered for allocation in the local plan.
National guidance on producing 'land availability assessments' is provided in planning practice guidance section on housing and economic land availability assessment.
The guidance sets out a five-stage methodology which is based on identifying sites and broad locations with potential for development, assessing their development potential and assessing their suitability for development and the likelihood that they will come forward.
The LAA is presented in the form of an interactive map, supported by documents detailing the methodology and summary and conclusions.
The interactive map shows the LAA sites and includes an attribute table containing the required information as set out in the Planning Practice Guidance.
The interactive map shows included sites outlined in green, excluded sites outlined in red and sites with planning permission in yellow.
Use the drop-down list to zoom to a parish or click and drag the map to move to a particular location. Constraint layers can be turned on and off in the ‘map layers’ section at the bottom of the page, and more information can be found by double clicking on the sites.
Call for sites
We are calling on residents to let us know of any brownfield land that is suitable and available for development.
During our Local Plan consultation, held between 22 January and 8 March, respondents suggested that every opportunity should be taken to identify brownfield land for development.
As a result we have launched a 'call for brownfield sites' which will run from 7 May to 7 June.
Let us know about those brownfield sites that you think could deliver development in our planning area (ie outside of the South Downs National Park).
As well as brownfield sites, we would like to receive suggestions for land for Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation and Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG).
BNG requires all developments to provide greater biodiversity than might be lost due to development. This might sometimes mean making planting or landscaping changes to a suitable site elsewhere.
If you know of any land that meets our requirements, then please tell us about it by using the link below.