Coming Soon: Local Plan Call for Sites

In January 2025, we will be launching the Somerset Local Plan Call for Sites.

This is a 6-week period where landowners, developers, and site promoters can submit to us land they want to develop. This process is crucial for gathering information to help develop the Local Plan. Please note, we will not be consulting on specific proposals or encouraging submissions in particular locations during this time. Submitting a site is not a planning application and does not grant planning permission or any other status.

The Call for Sites is not open yet, but more details on how to submit a site will be available early in the new year, so watch this space!

You'll be able to submit sites for various uses including:

• housing;
• economic development;
• gypsy and traveller pitches and plots; and
• renewable energy installations.

Following submissions, we'll assess each site's suitability, availability, and achievability, and a report will be published summarising these assessments and the process followed.

These assessments will help determine which sites might be considered in future consultations for the new Local Plan. However, the Call for Sites is just 1 of many ways we gather information for this process.