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Interested parties and stakeholders are invited to suggest sites they think would be suitable for housing development, business uses or a mix of these and other uses from Thursday 25 October until 5pm Thursday 6 December.

This is part of our ‘Call for Sites’ process which is part of two joint studies that are being undertaken, Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) and Employment Land and Premises (EL&P).

The council is carrying out these joint studies to inform their Local Development Framework (LDF), a portfolio of documents introduced by the new planning system to allocate land for different uses, following recommendations within guidance from Government, ‘Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessments: practice guidance’, (Department for Communities and Local Government, 2007) (link opens new window).

The ‘Call for Sites’ process does not imply any commitment by the Council that such sites will be considered for development in the future but that these sites will be judged against relevant planning policies and other considerations inline with government guidance.

The final study findings will be published in the early summer of 2008 after further assessments by independent consultants, when the public will have the opportunity to comment on them.

The council would like to remind anyone wishing to propose a site for development that a map showing the location of the site, including detailed site boundaries is required to enable us to precisely identify the site and record it on out own mapping system.

Appropriate maps for submission can be found and purchased easily on-line or via searching for a stockist in your local area. ‘Find your local map and Data Centre’ (link opens new window).

Further guidance regarding appropriate scale and size can be found in the ' Information on filling in the Site Suggestion Form’.

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