Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment

The key purpose of the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) is to demonstrate the availability of sites for housing and employment development within Portsmouth. The Council updates the HELAA on a regular basis to provide an accurate representation of land availability within the City, to inform plan-making, and to help address any failures in meeting the Housing Delivery Test.

The most recent HELAA is the 2025 HELAA:

The methodology for the HELAA is published separately in a stand-alone document, the latest version of the HELAA Methodology is dated 2025.

Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) 2025 Methodology

You can also view the previous HELAAs below.

Call for Sites

In spring 2025 the Council ran a ‘Call for Sites’ for new housing and employment sites to inform the preparation of a new HELAA. The closing date for submissions was 24^th April 2025 and the 2025 HELAA has since been published. The Council is happy to accept the submission of new sites to the HELAA, which should be accompanied by a completed Call for Sites Proforma, but any such sites proposed for development will now be considered in future iterations of PCC’s HELAA.

Privacy Notice

Portsmouth City Council is the data controller of any personal data you provide on this form. It will be used for the purpose of preparing the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA) and also feed into the preparation of the Portsmouth Local Plan. It will only be held for as long as necessary for this purpose. Personal details (including names, telephone numbers, postal and e-mail addresses) will not be published. If there are specific aspects of the information you provide that you would like us to keep confidential, please make this clear in your response. You should be aware that under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) the Council may be required to disclose information if it considers no exemption under the legislation applies. The Council will, whenever practicable, consult with individuals who may be affected by disclosure of information.

For full details of how the council collects and uses personal data, please see the full Data Protection privacy notice – Portsmouth City Council.