The Council needs your help to identify areas for development across the Borough to deliver new proposals for our local communities. We welcome landowners, agents and developers to put forward sites to be assessed for future development.

Site submissions and their assessment, will be published in our annual Strategic Housing and Employment Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA).

We will continue to accept new sites for inclusion in subsequent SHELAA updates, with the next version due to be published in 2025. All submitted sites will continue to be considered through the Local Plan process.

It is the applicant's responsibility to keep the Council informed of any change of circumstances or changes to contact details. 

The Council will periodically contact everyone who is on the database to ensure they still wish for their land to be considered. 

If the Council cannot get in contact with you, this may result in your site being removed.

Submit a site 

The Council welcomes sites being put forward as part of the new Local Plan process.

We only accept sites that are above a certain threshold:

• For housing developments, sites must be able to accommodate 5 or more dwellings
• For economic development, sites must be over 0.25 hectares (or 500 square metres of net additional floorspace)

Sites submitted below these thresholds will be rejected and not included in the process.

If you wish to submit a site, please provide as much information as possible on the below form. Please also include a map showing the site boundaries.

• Call for Sites form (Word) (including Brownfield Land Register)
• Call for Sites form (pdf 179kb) (including Brownfield Land Register)

You will need to download a form to complete it and then either email back to strategicplanningconsultations@staffordbc.gov.uk or post the form to Strategic Planning, Stafford Borough Council, Civic Centre, Riverside, Stafford, ST16 3AQ.