Local Plan Partial Update (LPPU) - public consultation

Contents

• Introduction and policy background
• Plan overview
• Local residents: what this means for you
• Businesses: what this means for you
• Developers and built environment experts: what this means for you
• Other interested parties: what this means for you
• View our experts discussing this Planning policy update
• View the consultation documents
• Have your say
• Guidance on how to respond
• Plan adoption timeline

Plan adoption timeline

1. Launch consultation

   Completed April to June 2020

   This consultation set out our proposed scope for the review of current local planning policies. View the consultation report.

2. Options consultation

   Completed January to February 2021

   This consultation offered a chance to comment on the options, or potential approaches, for the review of current planning policies. View the consultation report.

3. Publication consultation

   Active

   This consultation offers the opportunity to comment on the soundness and legal compliance (including the duty to co-operate) of the Regulation 19 (Publication) Draft Local Plan.

   There are also three other consultations running at the same time:

   • Energy Efficiency, Retrofitting and Sustainable Construction SPD
   • Transport and Developments SPD
   • HMOs SPD

4. Plan submission for public examination

   On target Winter 2021

   Plan submission for examination by a planning inspector, appointed by the Secretary of State (Regulation 21)

5. Examination hearings

   On target Spring 2022

   These are publicly held discussions where the planning inspector can ask about key issues relating to the Local Plan and its preparation. Anyone has the right to attend and speak at hearings,, so long as they have submitted representations on the Local Plan during the consultation stage, and stated in advance that they would like to attend. 

6. Plan adoption

   On target Summer 2022

   On adoption, the Local Plan Partial Update will become the central document summarising our local Planning policy, which we will use to determine all planning applications.