2030 Local Plan Review Evidence Base documents

Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA)

The Council is required to produce a Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA). The SLAA helps to identify future sources of land to help meet the area’s development needs. It is a technical study which assesses particular areas of land supply in the Borough to determine how far each is suitable, available and achievable (viable) for development.

SLAA 2022: Call for sites

The Council undertook a call for sites for the 2022 SLAA between 30 September until 1 November 2022. Complete the form online.

SLAA site nomination form

To request hard copy of nomination forms, email planningpolicy@runnymede.gov.uk

Please note that although the formal Call for sites period ran between 30 September and 1 November 2022, Runnymede Borough Council will still accept site submissions outside of this period. However, it is not guaranteed that sites submitted after the deadline of the 1 November 2022 will be included in the 2022 SLAA. It will, however, be kept for inclusion in any future iteration of the SLAA.

Update to the Joint Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA) Methodology

The Council updated the Joint Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA) Methodology for Runnymede and Spelthorne Borough Councils in 2021. This update was mainly undertaken to take account of changes to national policy and guidance but also to clarify certain issues that have arisen with the previous approach and to address comments received from interested stakeholders and with the previous methodology.

The council consulted on a joint draft methodology with Spelthorne Borough Council. The updated final methodology can be found in this document.

Strategic Land Availability Assessment Methodology (2021)

The 2021 Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA)

Runnymede Borough Council produced an update to the Strategic Land Availability Assessment (SLAA) 2018 in the 2021 SLAA. The 2021 SLAA has been produced to support the review of the Runnymede 2030 Local Plan. The report contains indicative housing trajectories, including an update to the Council’s 5-Year Housing Land Supply (5YHLS) position, as an appendix to this report.

2021 SLAA

The 2021 SLAA is available to view below.

Strategic Land Availability Assessment Report (January 2021)

The 2021 SLAA site assessments and their associated maps are available to view in the area Appendices below. One has been produced for each settlement Area in the Borough. SLAA sites can be viewed in the context of the Borough on Maps - Runnymede's interactive mapping service

 Addlestone 2021 SLAA appendix
  Chertsey 2021 SLAA appendix
  Egham 2021 SLAA appendix
 Englefield Green 2021 SLAA appendix
 Longcross 2021 SLAA appendix
 Other (Lyne) 2021 SLAA appendix
 Ottershaw 2021 SLAA appendix
 Thorpe 2021 SLAA appendix
 Virginia Water 2021 SLAA appendix
 Woodham and New Haw 2021 SLAA appendix