Where is every Local Plan up to?
Plan-making stages, housing site allocations and five-year housing land supply for every planning authority in England, explained in plain English and tracked against the published evidence.
Lowest five-year supply
Years of deliverable housing land · dashed line = 5 years
Three questions, answered for every council.
Is the plan up to date and what happens next? How much housing land can the council show? Which sites are being assessed or allocated? Each answer links back to an official source with the date it was checked.
Local Plan tracker
The stage every authority has reached, legacy or new system, its next milestone and when its next plan is due.
Open the tracker →5YHLS rankings
Every authority ranked by its five-year housing land supply, lowest first, with the shortfall in homes, the buffer and the base date.
See who is lowest →Sites map
SHLAA/HELAA sites, proposed and adopted housing allocations on one map. Filter to authorities below a chosen level of supply.
Explore the map →How a Local Plan gets made.
Since 25 March 2026 new plans follow a 30-month process with three gateways. Plans already well advanced can still finish under the old rules if they are submitted by 31 December 2026.
Next plan milestones.
Consultations, gateways, hearings and deadlines in date order. In the live tracker each date is marked as council-published, statutory, or estimated by us.
| Authority | Current stage | Next milestone | Date |
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No five-year supply, less control.
A council that cannot show five years' worth of deliverable housing land is more exposed to speculative planning applications and appeals. Under the National Planning Policy Framework published on 17 August 2026, a shortfall counts as evidenced unmet need, which opens the route in Policy S5(1)(j) for housing outside settlement boundaries.
Worked example
| Annual housing requirement | 1,000 |
| Five years + 5% buffer | 5,250 |
| Deliverable supply identified | 3,885 |
| Shortfall | 1,365 |
| Supply in years | 3.7 years |
The 2026–27 transition.
England is moving between two plan-making systems while a new national policy framework beds in. These are the dates that matter for housing land.
New plan-making rules in force
The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 bring in the 30-month, three-gateway process.
New NPPF published
The Framework is rewritten as coded policies. Policies S3–S5 replace the old paragraph 11(d) presumption with a location-based approach.
First Gateway 1 deadline
Authorities in the first group to enter the new system must publish their Gateway 1 self-assessment.
Last day for legacy submissions
Plans not submitted for examination by this date must restart under the new system.
Examination wave
Around a hundred plans submitted at the end of 2026 are expected to be examined, with outcomes through 2027.
Next Gateway 1 group
A further group of authorities with older plans must publish Gateway 1 self-assessments.
Get alerts for the councils you follow.
New consultations, gateway results, land supply statements and allocation changes, emailed as they are published.