The SHLAA should only be a technical document although somewhere (was it the Green Paper a few years back) said that SHLAA's were material considerations. This doesn't seem right to me as, being technical documents they don't have to be formally approved by members so how it can be a material consideration on specific sites I don't know. But the way a SHLAA might be used as a material consideration in a another sense would be if you had a policy in the Core Strategy that only allowed the development of, say greenfield sites, once it was identified that there was a shortage of PDL coming forward. Evidence in the SHLAA would then be relied upon to demonstrate either way.
