Herefordshire Council is preparing a Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA). The purpose is to identify and assess land that has potential to deliver housing, or where appropriate employment-based development in the local plan period. This will provide important fresh evidence of land availability in the county to underpin the Core Strategy, which is currently undergoing review.

The intention is to:

  • Undertake a county-wide review of all existing assessed sites and
  • Seek any additional land that may have become available

To gather the necessary information, they are undertaking a call for sites exercise county-wide, for both existing assessed sites and newly available sites.

Landowners, agents or developers who wish to promote land for development should: 

  • Fill in the call for sites form (download via link below) to the best of their knowledge 
  • Submit the form with a location plan with the boundaries of the site clearly marked out in red
  • Complete a separate form for each site, if promoting more than one site

They are looking for sites which are within or close to an existing settlement, and of an area of at least 0.25 hectares.

The council will be accepting submissions for a 6 week period from Monday 3 August to Monday 14 September 2020.

Submissions and enquiries can be emailed to ldf@herefordshire.gov.uk  

For more information and a submission form click here

Author: Hannah Moule