Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment 2009 Review June 2009 LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK 1 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review This document can also be made available in alternative formats, including large print and Braille. For further details please contact the LDF Help-line on 0161 912 4475 2 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review Contents 1 Introduction.............................................................................................. 3 2 Employment Land Study...........................................................................5 3 Economic Viability Study.........................................................................12 4 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) ..............................................13 5 Local Infrastructure Assessment.............................................................15 6 LDF Core Strategy Proposals Changes..................................................15 7 Additional Site Suggestions ....................................................................17 8 Summary of the 2009 SHLAA Results....................................................21 9 The Amount of New Housing Required in Trafford .................................25 10 Review of the Assessment......................................................................26 List of Tables Table 1: Employment Sites Identified to be Retained and Available as Part of the Employment Land Supply following Assessment by Trafford Council........6 Table 2: Employment Sites Identified to be Retained or Considered for Mixed Use Development but do not form part of the Employment Land Supply Following Assessment by Trafford Council ....................................................10 Table 3: SHLAA Sites within Flood Zones .....................................................14 Table 4: Strategic Sites and Locations Summary Table ................................16 Table 5: Additional Site Suggestions .............................................................17 Table 6: Further Site Suggestions..................................................................20 Table 7: Summary of Potential from Sites within the Planning Process.........21 Table 8: Summary of Potential from Sites not within the Planning Process...22 Table 9: The Sources of Supply by Area .......................................................23 Table 10: Potential Sources of Supply by Site Size .......................................24 Table 11: Potential Supply by Market Location.............................................24 Table 12: Site Accessibility to Public Transport .............................................25 Table 13: Potential Supply of Development Land – Comparison with Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) and Housing Growth Point (HGP) Requirements......26 Table 14: Actual New Housing Provision 2003/4 to 2008/9 ...........................26 Appendices Appendix 1 – Potential Supply from within Strategic Sites and Locations within the SHLAA .....................................................................................................28 Appendix 2 – Potential Supply from Sites within the Planning Process .........36 Appendix 3 –Potential Supply from Sites not within the Planning Process ....48 Appendix 4 – Sources of Supply by Area.......................................................55 Appendix 5 – Sources of Supply by Site Size ................................................72 Appendix 6 – Potential Years Supply of Development Land..........................89 Appendix 7 – Site Mapping ..........................................................................107 3 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review 1 Introduction 1.1 In accordance with Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) Trafford Council is seeking to prepare and maintain a Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) report as part of the evidence base to be used to inform the preparation of the Councils Local Development Framework. 1.2 An initial SHLAA 2008 report was made available for consultation for a 6 week period alongside Trafford’s Core Strategy Preferred Options document between 16th July and 27th August 2008. 1.3 Stakeholders including landowners, developers, infrastructure service providers, other interested parties and Council service departments, were invited to make comments on the initial findings of the Assessment undertaken by the Council. In particular information and comments were sought on sites included in the report in terms of site constraints, housing potential and the deliverability and developability of sites that may influence and therefore alter the development capacity and/or the timing delivery of that capacity as recorded in the report. 1.4 Stakeholders were also given the opportunity to submit new information about additional sites that could further augment the potential supply of land for development that could be included in a revised published version of the first assessment. 1.5 Following the close of the consultation period a SHLAA Draft Report Consultation Statement (December 2008) was published. The purpose of the Consultation Statement was to summarise the key comments received during the consultation exercise and to outline how these comments would help to shape the next published version of the SHLAA. The report also outlined the additional work that would be carried out to produce a 2009 version of the SHLAA. 1.6 This 2009 version of the SHLAA is being made available during the formal period of public consultation on the Core Strategy: Further Consultation on the Preferred Option document for information and further comment. It should be read as an updated and developed assessment of the land supply position within the Borough as at April 2009 and therefore supercedes the information presented in the reports referred to in paragraphs 1.2 and 1.5 above. 1.7 This 2009 report is structured in two sections – the first (Part A) summarising the work that has been undertaken to update and develop the assessment since the publication of the initial 2008 report – the second (Part B) setting out a summary of the updated 2009 results. 4 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review 1.8 It should be noted that the inclusion or otherwise of a site within this assessment does not in itself determine whether a site should be allocated for housing development. 1.9 The Land Allocations DPD will serve the purpose of allocating sites for development rather than the SHLAA. Importantly therefore the inclusion of sites within this assessment does not necessarily imply that the site will be allocated for residential development or receive planning consent for any form of development. PART A 2 Employment Land Study 2.1 Within the draft version of the SHLAA (June 2008) it was deemed necessary to exclude all existing employment sites which were in use, vacant or allocated in the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) under proposals E7 and E13 until such time as an Employment Land Study (ELS) had been completed and published. 2.2 In September 2008 Arup and Lambert Smith Hampton were commissioned to undertake an Employment Land Study for Trafford Council1 to analyse the future demand and potential future provision of employment land in Trafford through to 2026. The final Employment Land Study was received by Trafford Council in May 2009. 2.3 The Employment Land Study concludes that a total of 31 sites (amounting to almost 185ha of land) should be retained for employment use as part of Trafford’s current available employment land supply. 2.4 Table 1 below taken from the ELS shows the employment sites identified to be retained as part of the available employment land supply. The ELS data has been augmented to show were or now sites have been included in the SHLAA. 2.5 The table shows that only 5 of the 31 listed sites have been included in whole or in part the 2009 SHLAA – 4 as specific sites and 1 as a site located within a Core Strategy Strategic Location. 1 Trafford Employment Land Study – May 2009 5 Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment – 2009 Review Table 1: Employment Sites Identified to be Retained and Available as Part of the Employment Land Supply following Assessment by Trafford Council ELS SHLAA Site Included or Site Ref ELS Site Name Area Type of Site ELS Status SHLAA Site Name discounted Ref from SHLAA Included as Land west of the Victoria Victoria 70125 0.4 Cleared Employment PDL Retain 1450 part of Victoria Warehouse Warehouse Warehouse Wharfside Included 1609 72066/02 Southbank 2.3 Cleared Employment PDL Retain Trafford Park (Strategic Location SL2) 70026 Warren Bruce Road 0.62 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted 72079/00 Electric Park 2.33 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted Phase 2 – Plot 13, 72117 0.74 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted Waterside Elsinore Road, 62017/00 Elsinore Road 4 Cleared Employment PDL Retain 1608 Old Trafford Discounted Land bound by Ashburton 70129 1.88 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted Road West 72073/01 Twining Road 1.75 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted Land at Nash Road (Trinity 72103/00 1.16 Cleared Employment PDL Retain n/a n/a Discounted Business