North Northamptonshire SHLAA
March 2009
Roger Tym & Partners has recently completed the first Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for North Northamptonshire.
It is the first step towards achieving the necessary housing growth for the borough and forms part of the evidence base to inform the distribution of post-2021 growth. The SHLAA considers the potential supply of housing from a range of settlements and planned sustainable urban extensions across North Northamptonshire, over a 20-year period.
North Northamptonshire has been identified as a key part of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands growth area and will need to accommodate significant housing and employment growth to 2021 and beyond. The SHLAA is pivotal to ensuring these objectives can be met.
The SHLAA forms part of the Local Development Framework evidence base and sits alongside a range of other technical studies. It sets out a range of ways in which the LPAs can meet their housing supply requirements over the 20-year study period.
The results show that there is significant housing potential in each of the four Council areas, and that each LPA can meet its five-year dwelling target in one way or another. We concluded that it will not be possible to meet the longer-term dwelling requirements in Corby or Kettering solely from previously developed land and that meeting the requirements of East Northamptonshire and Wellingborough will not be possible without allocating some large greenfield sites. Each authority will need to undertake considerable further work through the preparation of site-specific DPDs in order to decide how to meet its longer term dwelling targets.
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