Local plans: housing land supply evidence
This collection includes templates that local planning authorities may wish to use (in the legacy system) to provide evidence about the housing land supply in a local plan in the context of relevant national policy and guidance.
Background
The National Planning Policy Framework expects plans to identify a supply of housing sites. The following templates are intended to provide a helpful way of presenting this information at examination, which local planning authorities may wish to use in preparing their housing land supply evidence.
Templates
Transitional arrangements mean that previous versions of the National Planning Policy Framework may apply to plan examinations (as set out in Annex 1: Implementation of the National Planning Policy Framework (December 2024)). Consequently, the links provided below set the templates in the context of the different versions of the National Planning Policy Framework that may be relevant.
Local planning authorities should aim to complete an individual template for every allocation included in the plan that proposes residential development.
A template should also be completed for any sites that are not allocations in the plan but are assumed to contribute towards the five year supply.
For non-major housing sites with planning permission that are anticipated to be part of the five year supply, local planning authorities may wish to provide information in summary form in the small sites summary template, which is also included in the links below.