Decision details

The Cabinet Members for Prosperity and Performance and Capacity considered the draft Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for the Crewe and Nantwich area for the purposes of public consultation.

The Council’s Local Development Scheme identified the preparation of a SHLAA as one of the most important pieces of evidence needed to support the Cheshire East Core Strategy. The only area of Cheshire East where this work had yet to be done was the area of the former Borough of Crewe and Nantwich.

The SHLAA was a technical study to inform future policy development; it did not in itself constitute planning policy. The Assessment was intended to provide an indication of which land was deliverable and developable within the area of the former Crewe and Nantwich Borough.

A draft SHLAA had now been agreed with the Crewe and Nantwich SHLAA Task Group. To accord with the statutory procedures it now needed to be made available for full public consultation with stakeholders and interested parties.

RESOLVED

That the draft Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) for the Crewe and Nantwich area be approved for a statutory six week period of public consultation.