Call for Sites

What is the Call for Sites?

Ashford Borough Council has started work on the statutory review of its Local Plan, which will primarily set the strategic vision and planned growth for housing and jobs within the borough to 2043.

As part of the Local Plan process, the council is inviting landowners, developers and other interested parties to submit sites that they own, or suggest land that may potentially be available, for inclusion in the Local Plan.

The Call for Sites consultation runs from 9am Wednesday 2 September 2026 until 5pm on Wednesday 23 September 2026.

What sites can you submit?

A broad range of sites can be submitted through the Call for Sites, including:

• Housing
• Gypsy, Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation
• Employment
• Community uses,
• Tourism,
• Energy Generation
• Nutrient neutrality mitigation land, and
• Biodiversity Net Gain.

To be considered in the Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (HELAA), sites must be capable of accommodating 5+ dwellings or economic development on sites of 0.25 hectares (or 500 metres of floorspace) and above. They could include vacant or derelict land, or opportunities for strategic conversions or extensions to existing buildings.

Local Green Space

The council is also inviting site submissions for Local Green Space. Please note this has a dedicated site submission form.

How do I submit a site?

Please fill in the site submission form online.

If you are submitting a site for consideration as Local Green space, please use the separate Local Green Space online form.

Print versions of the comment forms are also available to download from this webpage.

If you have completed a print version of the comment form, please return via email to planning.policy@ashford.gov.uk with the subject heading ‘Ashford Local Plan 2043 Call for Sites’.

If you wish to return your physical feedback forms via post, please send to the Plan Making & Infrastructure Team, Spatial Planning, Ashford Borough Council, International House, Dover Place, Ashford, TN23 1HU.

Do I need to resubmit my site through the Call for sites if I submitted it as part of the work on the Local Plan 2042?

If you submitted your site through the Call for Sites as part of the work on the Ashford Local Plan 2042, you should have been contacted separately to confirm whether you agree to the transfer of the site over to the work on the new Ashford Local Plan 2043.

If you replied to that email confirming the transfer, you do not need to do anything else.

If you did not reply, you may need to resubmit the site using the links above.

How to view the sites submitted previously?

All the site submissions are available to view using the ‘Download Individual Submissions' links on the right hand of the webpage.

List of all the Call for Sites HELAA IDs

View the sites submitted in the 2023 Call for Sites

View the sites submitted in the 2025 Call for Sites

The Council has also produced an interactive map which shows the location of the site submissions and the HELAA IDs. View our interactive map

Privacy Policy

Ashford Borough Council (ABC) is the data controller for the personal information you provide in this form. ABC’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at FOI@ashford.gov.uk. Your information will be used to inform our Local Plan, consultations and processing is being conducted relying upon the public interest legal basis under the Town and Country Planning Act. Given the statutory status of the Local Plan, relevant regulations, and the public interest in making information on the Local Plan consultation available, it is appropriate for us to make a wide range of information and documents available on our website including consultation responses and the name and address of the individual and or company making those responses. Conversely, however, there is no wider duty or need to disclose information other than that which is statutory. Your telephone number and/or email address will not be published. Your information may be retained for the purpose of keeping you informed about the plan making process and will be deleted 6 years after the end of the relevant plan making cycle. Personal information including your name and contact details retained on our consultation database will be retained for the purpose of keeping you informed unless you opt out of this via your registration within the consultation database. For more information on your rights please see the council’s privacy statement at: https://www.ashford.gov.uk/.