Managing Housing Supply
Paragraph 69 of the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) (December 2023) requires all local planning authorities to identify and update annually a supply of specific deliverable sites sufficient to provide five years’ worth of housing against their housing requirements. This is addressed by the production of a SHLAA, which enables the Council to establish if sufficient deliverable housing land exists within Erewash.
Importantly, the SHLAA does not decide where housing should be built or which sites must be allocated. Instead, it identifies sites that have the potential to be developed as housing should a site be assessed as'suitable','available',’ and ‘achievable’.
Despite a site being positively assessed through the Erewash SHLAA, this should not be taken as a guarantee of being automatically granted planning permission or forming an allocation in the Borough’s Local Plan. Each application proposing new housing in Erewash or the promotion of land through the Local Plan is always assessed on its own merits.
The Council’s most recent SHLAA was published in late 2022, with a baseline date for housing supply purposes of April 2022. All SHLAA sites can be seen on the Council’s GIS mapping portal, with options to view all layers from 2014, 2019, and 2022 SHLAAs.
More information about the SHLAA can be accessed on the Council’s Core Strategy Review examination website, where the SHLAA is a significant element of the Council’s housing evidence. Other materials associated with the most recently published SHLAA are available to view at this location.
The Planning Policy section is always receptive to receiving details of sites that landowners, agents, and developers wish to see included by the Council in its future SHLAA and land supply-themed documents. Should you wish to make us aware of land that you believe has potential to support new housing development, then please submit information electronically (ideally including ownership details and a site plan) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by post to Planning Policy, Erewash Borough Council, Town Hall, Derby Road, Long Eaton, NG10 1HU.
5-Year Housing Land Supply (5YLS):
Reiterating the guidance referred to above, the NPPF requires the Council to demonstrate a 5-year supply of deliverable housing land against its Standard Method-derived local housing need figure. Paragraph 77 of the NPPF sets out the circumstances in which a council would be required to provide an additional 20% buffer. This would be activated where there has been significant underdelivery of housing over the preceding three-year period, with levels of housebuilding performance reported through the Housing Delivery Test (HDT).
As confirmed by consecutive HDTs, the Council is required to supplement its 5-year housing land supply with a 20% buffer. This has been added to the calculated 5-year local housing need, which in Erewash’s case also represents the Council’s annual housing requirement at the time it submitted its Core Strategy Review for independent examination.
Further information relating to the Council’s current 5-year housing land supply can be accessed on its Core Strategy Review examination website. More detailed information sets out the Council’s approach to calculating its 5-year housing land supply and the various components that collectively comprise the reported position. This can be found in the Five-Year Land Supply (5YLS) Position Paper (November 2022), which currently forms part of the Council’s examination library in support of its Core Strategy Review. It can be accessed from the Evidence Base page within the examination website, with the document labelled EBH3.
As explained within the 5YLS Position Paper, the Council is able to identify a 5.2-year supply of deliverable housing land. This incorporates supply from four strategic housing allocations included within the Erewash Core Strategy Review, currently under examination and awaiting dates of hearing sessions. Without the supply from these sites, all of which are within the Green Belt, the deliverable supply of housing land drops to 2.65 years.