News on Herefordshire Local Plan 2021-2041

Herefordshire Council is preparing both a Brownfield and an Employment Land Availability Assessment. The purpose of the former is to identify and assess land that is Brownfield and can support either residential or employment-based development.

The latter is seeking to identify land that can support specifically employment-based development, whether Brownfield or Greenfield. These taken together will provide important evidence of Brownfield land and Employment land availability in the county.

Please note at this time we will not be assessing any sites that are Greenfield and promoted for residential development. These submissions will not be processed.

In order to gather the necessary information to facilitate this, we are undertaking a call for sites exercise county-wide, for both previously assessed sites and newly available sites. Landowners, agents or developers who wish to promote land for development should fill in the call for sites form (https://www.herefordshire.gov.uk/callforsites) to the best of their knowledge. If promoting more than one site, please use separate forms for each.

The call for sites will be running for a 6 week period. From Monday 23rd of October to Monday 4th of December.

If you have submitted land in the previous 2020 and 2022 calls for sites- Please note that you do not need to submit any of the same sites again, unless you wish to change the proposed use to employment from residential. The sites received in 2020 and 2022 have been undergoing assessment but capacity issues have seen the planning team experiencing difficulties in obtaining the necessary expert input to complete these. The council apologises unreservedly for this and it is working to rectify the issue as soon as possible with a view to publishing the assessments in a single HELAA document.