5 Year Housing Land Supply - Public forum - Planning Advisory Service (PAS)

We are in a similar position in Central Lancashire and I suspect many other authorities are too. I know that POSe and CLG have had discussions about this but no government guidance appears to be intended. The only informal advice appears to be to try harder to show all parties have been involved in the SHLAA process (such as landowners as well as developers) and try to get them to look beyond the recession to better times unfortunately in our experience this means after the next 5 years so its of little help. This is a very important issue - so come on you forum watchers in high places give us some help!

Hi Julian and Andrew. I note that in the PBR out today (or yesterday, I can't remember) the 5 yr supply gets a bit of a frown from the chancellor. http://prebudget.treasury.gov.uk/ You want page 88 "The Government will support an effective housing supply response through the recovery by: * bringing forward more land for development, through improving local authorities’ five year land supplies by undertaking comprehensive checks, publishing results and withholding incentive funding where a viable land supply is not in place" I don't think it is going to go away.