Use the England HELAA / SHLAA Tracker to identify current and continuing opportunities to put land forward for assessment through a Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment, Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment, Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessment or a related Call for Sites process. The tracker concentrates on authorities where a current submission route has been identified, rather than trying to list every historic assessment published in England.
Each entry shows the authority, region, submission route, current status, published position and official source. Some authorities operate a fixed window with a clear closing date. Others continue accepting sites after a formal exercise has ended and hold later submissions for a future HELAA or SHLAA update. That distinction matters because a site submitted today may not necessarily be assessed in the evidence-base version currently being prepared.
HELAA and SHLAA evidence can be important to a landowner because it records how a planning authority currently views the site’s suitability, availability, achievability, capacity and constraints. A favourable conclusion does not allocate the land or grant planning permission, while an unfavourable conclusion is not always permanent. Updated ownership information, a revised boundary, a different access solution or new technical evidence can sometimes justify reconsideration at a later stage.
This page is designed primarily to answer where a current submission or update route exists and what to check next. For a fuller explanation of the assessment process, terminology and meaning of site conclusions, use our What Is a HELAA or SHLAA? guide. Through Value My Land, we can also review an existing assessment entry and identify the next realistic route for updating or promoting the land.
Current land availability routes
A HELAA, SHLAA or SHELAA is an evidence-base assessment rather than a planning permission process. Councils use these studies to understand the supply of land that may be capable of accommodating housing, employment or other development during the Local Plan period. The source of sites can include earlier planning work, known public land, existing permissions and, importantly, sites put forward by landowners, developers and promoters.
The practical question for many landowners is not simply what a HELAA is, but whether the council is accepting new land now, whether an existing site record can be updated and when the next assessment version is likely to be prepared. This tracker focuses on that live or continuing submission route. It therefore complements, rather than duplicates, the main HELAA / SHLAA guide.
If your land is already recorded in an assessment, the existing site reference and conclusion should be checked before making a fresh submission. A council may already hold a boundary, capacity figure, ownership statement or constraint analysis for the site. Where the information is old or inaccurate, it may be more effective to update the existing record than to create a duplicate site submission.
Open and continuing submission routes
The tracker was reviewed on 25 August 2026 and each opportunity retains its individual last-checked date. It is intentionally selective and is not a complete directory of every English council, historic HELAA or Local Plan evidence-base document.
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| Council / area | Region | Submission route | Status | Current position | Last checked | Official source |
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Luton Borough Council
The formal 28 May–23 July 2026 Call for Sites has closed, but the council’s current New Site Submissions page continues to invite sites through its consultation portal.
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East of England | Call for Sites / SHLAA | Rolling | Formal window closed; submission page remains available | Official Page | |
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Ribble Valley Borough Council
The further 2026 Call for Sites update has closed and submitted land will feed into the new Local Plan evidence base. Housing and employment sites will feed into the council’s land availability assessment.
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North West | Call for Sites / SHELAA | Closed | Official Page | ||
Slough Borough Council The 2026 Call for Sites closed on 24 August 2026. Submitted land will inform the emerging Local Plan evidence base and future land availability work. |
South East | Call for Sites / HELAA | Closed | Official Page | ||
Stafford Borough Council Sites received by 31 August 2026 are targeted for the current SHELAA update. The council states that later submissions will still be retained for future assessment. |
West Midlands | Call for Sites / SHELAA | Open | Official Page | ||
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Wiltshire Council
Wiltshire is inviting landowners, developers and communities to submit land as an early evidence-gathering stage for the new Local Plan.
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South West | Call for Sites / land availability evidence | Open | Official Page | ||
Dudley Council The separate 2026 Call for Sites is collecting land for assessment through the Dudley Borough Local Plan 2045 evidence and site-selection process. |
West Midlands | Call for Sites / land availability evidence | Open | Official Page | ||
South Worcestershire Councils Worcester City, Malvern Hills and Wychavon are inviting sites for assessment through the new South Worcestershire Local Plan process. |
West Midlands | Call for Sites / HELAA | Open | Official Page | ||
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Cornwall Council
Cornwall's Calls for Sites invite land for housing, employment, infrastructure and environmental uses. Submissions received by 31 December 2026 will be considered as part of the Cornwall Local Plan 2050 evidence and site-selection process.
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South West | Call for Sites / HELAA | Open | Open until 31 December 2026 | Official Page | |
City of Wolverhampton Council The Wolverhampton Plan Call for Sites invites land for consideration through the new-plan evidence base and future SHLAA work. |
West Midlands | Call for Sites / SHLAA | Open | Official Page | ||
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Rother District Council
Rother continues to accept new site submissions for assessment through the next version of its HELAA. Later submissions can therefore enter a future assessment update.
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South East | Call for Sites / HELAA | Rolling | No fixed closing date stated | Official Page | |
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Tandridge District Council
The formal Call for Sites has closed, but the council states that sites can still be submitted and that later submissions will be considered in future HELAA updates.
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South East | Call for Sites / HELAA | Rolling | Submissions accepted for future updates | Official Page | |
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Greater London
The original London-wide Call for Sites period has ended, but the LAND4LDN submission platform remains available. Later submissions are considered at the relevant borough’s discretion.
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London | LAND4LDN / SHLAA | Rolling | Platform open; borough discretion | Official Page |
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Authority positions can change without notice. A page may remain available after a formal window closes, a rolling submission may be held for a later assessment, and minimum site-size or ownership requirements can differ. Open the official source before relying on any entry.
Existing assessment review
We can review the published site entry, boundary, indicative capacity, assessment conclusion and identified constraints, then consider whether updated evidence or a current submission route may improve the way the land is presented to the authority.
After finding a route
The tracker should be the starting point rather than the submission itself. The most useful next steps are to confirm the authority’s requirements and understand what information it already holds about the site.
Confirm that the route is still available, whether the stated deadline has changed, which land uses are accepted and whether the authority distinguishes between new sites and updates to land already submitted.
Check the latest HELAA, SHLAA, SHELAA, interactive map or site schedule. If the land is already recorded, note the site reference, boundary, stated capacity, conclusion and any constraints identified by the authority.
A useful update should explain material changes since the previous assessment: ownership, availability, access, land use, boundary, capacity, technical evidence, infrastructure position or a change in the surrounding planning policy context.
Do not commission technical work simply to make the submission longer. Focus first on the reasons the site has not progressed and provide proportionate evidence that directly addresses those issues or demonstrates that circumstances have changed.
If your authority is not shown
Absence from this tracker does not mean the council is unwilling to consider land or that there is no current planning opportunity. The authority may be between formal Calls for Sites, preparing a new Local Plan, updating an existing land availability assessment or accepting information through a less prominent planning-policy route.
It is also possible that the latest HELAA or SHLAA has already been published and the next meaningful opportunity is a Local Plan consultation rather than another site-submission exercise. Where a site is already known to the council, representations on the emerging spatial strategy or proposed allocations can be more important than resubmitting the same information repeatedly.
Current submissions
Check whether the authority has a separate Call for Sites that may feed a later HELAA, SHLAA or Local Plan evidence-base update.
Check Current Calls for SitesPlan-making stage
See whether the council is approaching a consultation stage where site-selection evidence, spatial strategy or proposed allocations may be discussed.
Check Local Plan ProgressAssessment meaning
Understand the assessment terminology and why a site can be suitable in principle but still fail availability, achievability or delivery tests.
Read the Detailed GuideSite evidence
HELAA and SHLAA methodologies vary, but the same practical constraints regularly influence whether a site can progress. Review the issues most relevant to your land before deciding what supporting evidence is proportionate.
Check that the red-line boundary reflects the land genuinely available, that ownership is correctly described and that adjoining land needed for access or infrastructure is not assumed to be available without evidence.
Read the Title Plans and Boundaries GuideAn assessment may identify an apparently constrained frontage, visibility problem or highway-capacity issue. A revised access concept can materially change the way the site is understood.
Read the Access and Highways GuideCheck mapped flood zones, surface-water information, watercourses and whether a realistic developable area remains after allowing for drainage and flood-risk constraints.
Read the Flood Risk and Drainage GuideThe relationship with settlement edges, landscape character, trees, hedgerows, habitats and designated ecological sites can affect both suitability and indicative development capacity.
Listed buildings, conservation areas, scheduled monuments, archaeology and the setting of heritage assets can reduce capacity or require a different site layout rather than automatically ruling land out.
Read the Heritage GuideInfrastructure constraints can affect achievability and delivery timing. Consider utilities, wastewater capacity, electricity infrastructure and whether upgrades or third-party land may be required.
Read the Utilities GuideUse the evidence already published
Where a council has already assessed the land, the published record can tell you what needs attention before the next open window or Local Plan stage.
Match the council’s site reference and mapped boundary to the land you actually control. A boundary error can distort capacity, access and constraint conclusions.
Separate suitability, availability and achievability findings. A site may fail one test even though the authority accepts that development could be suitable in principle.
Identify whether the council relies on a mapped designation, officer judgement, technical evidence or missing information. That helps determine what type of update may be useful.
A HELAA conclusion is only part of the plan-making process. Track the next Call for Sites and Local Plan consultation so that the site is actively promoted when decisions about strategy and allocation are being made.
Assessment conclusions can change
If the assessment relies on old ownership information, an incorrect boundary, an unresolved access assumption or evidence that has since changed, there may be a basis for a better-supported update. The right response depends on the council’s current plan-making stage and the reason the site was reduced, rejected or deferred.
Tracker methodology
The page is designed as a practical monitoring tool. It should be read together with the authority’s own source rather than treated as a substitute for it.
Entries link to council or strategic-authority pages wherever a usable official source is available. The source should always be opened before a submission is prepared.
A fixed open window is normally tied to a defined plan-making exercise. A rolling route may simply mean information can be lodged now for consideration in a later evidence-base update.
Councils use different terminology and publishing arrangements. Absence from the tracker should trigger a check of the Local Plan, Call for Sites and latest land availability evidence.
Authorities can extend, close or replace an exercise. The Last checked column records when the entry was reviewed, but the council’s own page remains definitive.
August 2026 National Policy
The tracker records council activity, but the policy framework applying to a particular plan or decision now depends on whether the authority is using the new plan-making system or a legacy transitional route.
The new national decision-making policies are material considerations from publication. Applications should therefore be reviewed against the August 2026 framework even where the adopted Local Plan predates it, subject to the weight rules in Annex A.
Plans prepared under the 2026 regulations and spatial development strategies use the new framework. Other plans can remain under the December 2024 framework and its transition rules. The tracker stage should therefore be read with the council’s published legal route.
Regulation 18, Regulation 19, gateway and examination terminology can identify different systems. Open the council documents and confirm the statutory basis, policy version and deadline before submitting land or making a representation.
Council timetables, evidence documents and site-assessment positions can change between tracker updates. Verify the authority page and consultation documents before relying on a date or stage for a submission.
Use the tracker to identify the council and next document to inspect, then confirm the live position directly. The August 2026 NPPF may create a fresh site-assessment opportunity, but the applicable plan system and local evidence still determine the correct action.
Read the National Planning Policy Framework published on 17 August 2026.
Continue your research
Use these guides to move from the current tracker position into the relevant assessment, Local Plan, submission or site-suitability subject without repeating the detailed guidance on this page.
Understand the assessment process, terminology and the meaning of site conclusions.
Read GuideReview the three core tests that frequently determine whether a site can progress.
Read GuideSee how land availability evidence can feed into later site-selection and allocation decisions.
Read GuideUnderstand what councils normally request when land is put forward through a formal submission exercise.
Read GuideSearch current council Calls for Sites and fixed submission deadlines across England.
Open TrackerMonitor current Local Plan stages and identify where a later consultation may affect the site.
Open TrackerReview the wider policy, access, environmental and deliverability issues affecting development potential.
Read GuideUnderstand how national and local policy can influence the way a site is assessed.
Read GuideSee why settlement relationship, services, accessibility and surrounding development can affect site prospects.
Read GuideCommon questions
No. It focuses on identified open or continuing submission routes that can be linked to an official planning authority source. Historic assessments without a current submission route are not the main purpose of this page.
Open means an authority is currently advertising a land submission opportunity with a defined current window or accepting period. Always verify the closing time and submission requirements on the official page.
Rolling means site information can continue to be submitted after a formal window or without a fixed current closing date. The authority may hold the submission for a later HELAA, SHLAA or Local Plan evidence update.
No. A land availability assessment is evidence. It does not grant planning permission or allocate the site. Allocation is a later Local Plan decision and usually involves additional policy, sustainability and infrastructure testing.
Check the exact reason. If the conclusion relies on outdated availability information, an incorrect boundary, unresolved access, old technical evidence or an assumption that can now be addressed, a later update may be worthwhile.
Check the England Call for Sites Tracker, Local Plan Tracker and the council’s latest HELAA or SHLAA. The authority may be between formal windows or using a different route to collect land information.
No. The Last checked date tells you when the entry was reviewed. Councils can extend, close or amend exercises, so the official authority page remains the definitive source.
Yes. We can review the site reference, boundary, capacity, assessment conclusion, identified constraints and current Local Plan position, then consider whether an update or further promotion work is appropriate.
Free initial site review
Send the land postcode and approximate size. We can review whether the site is already recorded, how it has been assessed and whether a current submission, update or Local Plan route may be relevant.
Complete the form below and a member of our team will review the initial details.
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