PPS 12 Housing in Settlements·Page 48·Step 6

Selection and Classification of Urban Capacity Sites

Step 6 requires selecting final urban capacity sites, assessing their future potential, consulting with key stakeholders, and classifying them as plan zonings, plan opportunity sites, or windfall potential. Sites should not be ruled out without clear justification if they could come on stream within the plan period.

Select the final urban capacity sites and make a provisional assessment of future potential, both of which will be subject to detailed consultation with key plan consultees. It is important to consider sites in the light of the overall plan period and not to rule out sites that could readily be expected to come on stream within that period. Clear justification should be available for sites ruled out. Selected sites will ultimately be further classified in the plan as one of plan zonings; plan opportunity sites (all or part thereof); or subsumed into the general character area as part of overall windfall potential, if appropriate.

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