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Candidate Sites

To follow the progress of the Local Development Plan, please visit our CONSULTATION page.

The Candidate Site Register consultation is now closed!

In spring 2022 we invited submissions from developers, landowners and the public for sites for new development, redevelopment or protection in the Replacement LDP.

These sites are known as ‘candidate sites’*.  All candidate site submissions contributed to the ‘Candidate Site Register’, which was consulted on between 21st July 2022 to 22nd September 2022 and is below.

Candidate Sites Register (CSR)

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  • Table of Contents and Section 1 - Introduction (PDF 695 KB)

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  • Section 2 - Neath (Wards A-B) (PDF 26.15 MB)

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  • Section 2 - Neath (Wards C-D) (PDF 33.24 MB)

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  • Section 2 - Neath (Wards N-T) (PDF 40.19 MB)

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  • Section 3 - Port Talbot (Aberavon and Baglan Wards) (PDF 29.72 MB)

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  • Section 3 - Port Talbot (Bryn & Cwmavon Ward) (PDF 26.26 MB)

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  • Section 3 - Port Talbot (Margam Ward) - part 1 (PDF 20.23 MB)

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  • Section 3 - Port Talbot (Margam Ward) - part 2 (PDF 30.05 MB)

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  • Section 3 - Port Talbot - (P to T Wards) (PDF 31.92 MB)

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  • Section 4 - Pontardawe (Alltwen and Pontardawe Wards) (PDF 27.75 MB)

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  • Section 4 - Pontardawe (Rhos Ward) (PDF 23.13 MB)

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  • Section 5 - Afan Valley (PDF 16.13 MB)

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  • Section 6 - Amman Valley (PDF 28.15 MB)

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  • Section 7 - Dulais Valley (PDF 41.22 MB)

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  • Section 8 - Neath Valley (PDF 41.32 MB)

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  • Section 9 - Swansea Valley (PDF 33.14 MB)

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The submission of a candidate site does not guarantee that it will be taken forward into future Local Development Plan policy proposals. It is also not a planning application.

What happens next?  

 All sites will be assessed against the Candidate Site Assessment Methodology (see link below) and filtered as per the guidance.  Comments received from the informal Candidate Sites Register consultation will be used to inform Stage 2 of the detailed Candidate Sites Assessment and discussions with statutory consultees / key stakeholders.

Development Viability Model (DVM)

The Council has worked in partnership with other Council’s in the Mid and South West Wales regions, alongside town planning and development consultants Burrows-Hutchinson Ltd., to establish the DVM assessment tool. The DVM has been created as a comprehensive, user-friendly model that can be used by site proposers and decision makers for the purpose of assessing the financial viability of a development proposal.

The DVM is a ‘site-specific’ appraisal tool that has been produced to work with Microsoft Excel for Office 365, running on Microsoft Windows. Each copy of the model that is issued by the Council will be ‘locked’ to relate to a specific development site. The same copy of the model can, however, be re-used to assess more than one proposed scenario for development of that specific site.

Applicants using the Council’s Valuation Officer Service will be provided with a copy of the DVM following payment in full of the following fees:

Type of Scheme Fee
3 to 10 residential units £195
10 to 50 residential units £345
51 to 100 residential units £495
101+ residential units £ by agreement depending on size/complexity
Retail/commercial/industrial sites £ by agreement depending on size/complexity

Applicants submitting their viability appraisals directly to the Valuation Office will be charged £50 for a copy of the DVM prior to the release of the model to cover the administrative processing of the model.

Each copy of the DVM incorporates a “Quick Guide” and “Help Notes” are also incorporated into the model. The Council will also provide a detailed ‘DVM – User Guide’ to those who have purchased the model. A series of ‘how to’ videos have also been produced:

  1. Introduction to the DVM for Planning
  2. Resi Overview
  3. Resi Elements
  4. Costs
  5. Appraisal and Cashflow