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Draft Local Plan 2041 Regulation 19 Publication

This is the Draft Local Plan Regulation 19 Publication (technical consultation) page (the consultation period runs from 10am 26 September 2024 to 10am 8 November 2024). From here you can:

Provide representation online through the Representation Form

Open the documents:

 

The consultation period runs from 10am 26 September to 10am 8 November 2024.

 

This is a formal, statutory stage in the preparation of a Local Plan. Following the consultation all representations are sent, along with the draft Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate to be Examined by a government-appointed Planning Inspector who will consider if any changes need to be made to the Local Plan before it can be adopted.

During the Examination of the Local Plan the Planning Inspector is only able to assess whether the draft Local Plan has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements, and whether it is ‘sound’. Therefore, all representations on the draft Local Plan must relate to a matter of legal compliance or a matter of soundness as follows: 

  • Legally compliant – the draft Local Plan has been prepared in accordance with the legal and procedural requirements for preparing Local Plans

  • Positively prepared – the draft Local Plan provides a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet the area’s objectively assessed needs; and is informed by agreements with other authorities, so that unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development; 

  • Justified – an appropriate strategy, taking into account the reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence; 

  • Effective – deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; and 

  • Consistent with national policy – enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies in this Framework and other statements of national planning policy, where relevant.
     

Provide representation online through the Representation Form