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Like all Local Authorities throughout the country, Sevenoaks District Council has undertaken an assessment of all available plots of land within their area, greater than 0.2 hectares in size. The assessment made no distinction between Green Belt land and previously developed land, or between available land in towns or rural areas.
The assessment is officially called the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment, and helps determine how SDC will meet it’s government-imposed target of 3,300 homes over the years upto 2026.
All Parish Councils in the District were approached by SDC to nominate plots of land within each parish, which might be suitable for new housing before 2026. Halstead Parish Council did not propose the inclusion of any plots within the parish. We simply did not respond the the approach by the District Council.
3 plots of land in Halstead were included in SDC’s final report :
In each of the documents Sevenoaks District Council has given a priority to construction on each of the sites. Those given top priority will be made available for housing provision in the first quarter of the plan period, and so on until the 4th priority sites, which will not be available for housing provision until the final 5 years of the 20 year programme.
It is worth noting that all three Halstead sites, including Fort Halstead, are given fourth priority and will therefore not be considered for housing provision until the final quarter of the housing provision programme. It may well, of course, be possible that SDC will be able to meet its housing targets without needing to use any of the Halstead sites.
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