Brownfield Register

The Housing and Planning Act (2016) requires local planning authorities the to prepare, maintain and publish a register of brownfield land.

The register lists brownfield land (also known as previously developed land) that the Council has assessed as being potentially suitable for residential development.

This Register was published on 31 December 2018.

The Regulations states that the Brownfield Register must be maintained in two parts:

Part 1 comprises a list of brownfield sites in the borough that are considered appropriate for residential developments regardless of their planning status.
Part 2 includes sites which appear in Part 1 of the register and which Ashford Borough Council considers to be suitable for a grant of Permission in Principle (PiP) for residential or residential-led development. The Town and Country Planning (Permission in Principle) Order 2017 states that the sites entered in Part 2 will be granted planning permission in principle. No sites within Ashford have been included in Part 2 of the register at this time.

The Ashford Brownfield Register has been informed by the following sources:

Strategic Housing & Employment Land Availability Assessment
Sites which already have extant planning permission
Sites allocated within the Development Plan
It is not considered that the Council's Register falls within the scope of the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004 and therefore does not require Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)