CONSULTANTS are currently identifying sites around Dacorum where extra houses could go, as the possibility emerges of building 680 new homes a year.
The team is seeking to find 'as many sites as possible by not adopting any minimum size threshold' which means small urban plots are being considered alongside green belt options.
Even the potential for living over shops, housing conversions, and
empty offices will be looked at.
Housing consultancy Llewellyn Davies Yeang has been employed by Dacorum Borough Council to carry out a 'Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment' for the period 2007 to 2031.
The council says the work must take place because government policy dictates a rolling programme of housing sites must be identified.
"The purpose of the study is to demonstrate that the council has sufficient land supply," a spokeswoman said.
"It is a technical exercise to find out what we can or could do in the future."
She added: "Six hundred and eighty dwellings per annum has been proposed, but not confirmed, by central government."
The work is expected to be completed in May.
Hemel Hempstead has been identified by the government as a 'key centre for development and change', suitable for 18,000 new homes by 2031.
Landowner the Crown Estate is seeking to build 6,000 homes on land between the town and the M1.
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