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Housing and economic land availability assessment
Publication Year
2025
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Comprises planning practice guidance focusing on the method for carrying out housing and economic land availability assessment. Covers: planning under the new plan-making system; purpose of the assessment of land availability; flowchart; stage one: identification of sites and broad locations; stage two: site/broad location assessment; stage three: windfall assessment where justified; stage four: assessment review; and stage five: final evidence base.
Document History
Last updated: 27 November 2025 - Added information about the new plan-making system. Sourced from: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/housing-and-economic-land-availability-assessment and converted to pdf. Whilst we endeavour to capture all updates it is subject to receiving alerts from the publisher and there may be formatting or punctuation changes applied to the html version that do not affect the text. Document type: guidance. First published: 6 March 2014.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
2 Marsham Street
London
MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
