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Strategic Assessment of Land Availability (SALA)

The Council has undertaken an assessment of land available for housing, employment, retail and community uses, called the Strategic Assessment of Land Availability (SALA).

The Stroud District SALA 2017-2020 consists of a series of annual reports, which should be read together. The 2018, 2019 and 2020 Update reports contain new / additional sites, which were not submitted to the initial 2017 SALA assessment. The Updates do not supersede or replace the preceding reports.  

You can access the background studies, evidence and information behind the SALA assessment from this page, including the 2016 Landscape Sensitivity Assessment and the annual SALA Heritage Impact Assessments. 

Map An online mapping tool has been produced to identify the sites. Each site is annotated with the SALA assessment's final conclusion and the year of assessment. Please refer to the relevant year's report and appendices for full information about specific sites. The OS map base shows major constraints. 

 

2020 New Sites Update Report

Please note, this Update is an assessment of new sites. It does not replace or supersede the 2017 SALA, 2018 SALA or 2019 SALA Update: the four reports should be read in conjunction.

2020 New Sites Update Report

Appendices to this report set out the results for individual sites:

2020 Site Submissions

2019 New Sites Update Report

Please note, this Update is an assessment of new sites. It does not replace or supersede the 2017 SALA or 2018 SALA Update: the three reports should be read in conjunction.

  2019 New Sites Update Report

 Appendices to this report set out the results for individual sites:

2019 Site Submissions

2018 New sites update report

Please note, this Update is an assessment of new sites. It does not replace or supersede the 2017 SALA: the two reports should be read in conjunction.

 2018 New Site Update Report

Appendices to this report set out the results for individual sites:

  • Appendix 1 - Sites with Planning Permission and other commitments (2018)
  • Appendix 2 - Additional deliverable and developable sites (site assessments)
  • Appendix 3 - Additional sites with future potential (site assessments)
  • Appendix 4 - list of rejected sites

2018 Site Submissions

2017 Report of findings

All sites have now been assessed for their suitability, availability and achievability in accordance with the published methodology (see below). A covering Report of Findings sets out the overall findings in terms of land supply and settlements:

2017 SALA Report of Findings

Appendices to this report set out the results for individual sites:

An online mapping tool has been produced to identify the sites and major constraints on OS based maps. This can be accessed here.

You can access the background studies, evidence and information behind the SALA assessment from this page, including the Landscape Sensitivity Assessment and Heritage Impact Assessment > 

The SALA Methodology

The SALA has been undertaken in accordance with a methodology which was subject to public consultation in 2016:

2016 Call for Sites

A Call for Sites took place between 7th December 2015 and 18th January 2016. Parish and town councils, landowners, agents or potential developers were invited to put forward sites, located in and around the District’s settlements, that could be suitable for housing, employment, retail or community uses.

Please note some of these files are quite large and may take some time to download