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How to Get Involved with Local Development Plans How to get involved with local development plans Key points are: Your area’s development plan will have a key role in deciding where future development goes. Planning authorities produce several documents that together make up the local planning authority’s development plan. You can see these at the planning authority’s office, the public library, or on the planning authority’s website. During the production of these documents there will be a number of consultation stages. The consultation stages are your opportunity to influence what the plan says. You could tell the planning authorities about sites in your area that are important for wildlife and/or encourage the local authority to create or restore habitat in the area. What is a development plan? The development plan is a collection of a number of individual documents prepared for an area by planning authorities. It sets out the policies that promote and control development in your area. Development Plan Documents are produced by the local authority. You can see these documents at your local authority’s office, on their website, or in a public library. National Park Authorities are responsible for producing the development plan for the land within the park’s boundaries. The planning authority must make its decisions on planning applications in line with the policies in the development plan unless there are very good reasons not to. This is known as the ‘plan‐led’ system. Most development plans include policies that protect wildlife sites and species from damaging developments. These and other policies in the plan (for example, protecting open space) may help support your objection. The Local Development Framework The Government introduced Local Development Frameworks (LDF) in 2004. Planning authorities are creating these new development plans. The LDF is made up of a number of Development Plan Documents, each of which has a particular function. There are some documents that each authority must produce, and others Local planning pack: step up for wildlife near you Page 1 that may be produced to help the authority deal with specific planning issues in its area. How do I get involved? It is important to get involved early on. The ‘plan‐led’ system means that once the planning authority has approved the development plan, objections made to a planning application that conforms to the development plan will have to be very compelling to succeed. Equally, it will be much easier to resist applications where they do not conform with the plan. Get involved at an early stage in shaping the draft Development Plan Documents. At this stage, there may be several options open for consultation and making your views known on the policies and proposals in a draft Development Plan Document will be the first, and often best, chance you have to influence how new development is planned for your area. Once they have been adopted, Development Plan Documents will be kept under review by the planning authority and will periodically be replaced. Your planning authority will be able to tell you when the next one will be published for consultation. It is important for you to find out when the planning authority will be considering matters you are concerned with as they must receive your response before the deadline for the consultation stage. The Local Development Scheme is the project plan for the Local Development Framework and explains which documents the authority will produce, the subject that they will cover and the dates when the planning authority will be inviting public involvement for each document. Each planning authority must produce one and keep it up‐to‐date. Looking at the Local Development Scheme should explain the current state of the development plan process in your area. If you are still unsure, you should talk to your planning authority, which will be able to help you. The Statement of Community Involvement sets out how the planning authority intends to consult the public in its area. Looking at this document will tell you precisely where you can find out about matters relating to both the development plan and to planning applications in your planning authority’s area. It will also tell you how you can expect to be involved in the planning process. Each planning authority must produce one. What types of documents are there? Local planning pack: step up for wildlife near you Page 2 The Core Strategy contains the key parts of the plan, including the main policies for the area. All other development plan documents must reflect the policies contained in this document. Development Plan Documents can allocate land for specific uses, such as employment and housing, and will include any policies relating to the delivery of those sites, such as access or design. Other development plan documents might also be produced by the planning authority to deal with matters of particular concern to them, eg biodiversity protection or transport provision. Area Action Plans are optional documents that the planning authority can produce to deal with a particular part of its area where significant change or conservation is needed. These plans may have significant positive or negative effects on biodiversity. The Adopted Proposals Map will show you if the planning authority has already allocated land for a proposed use such as an employment area, or a new housing settlement in a development plan document. It must also show the sites in the area that have been designated because of their importance to wildlife. The map reflects the policies contained in each Development Plan Document and will be updated to take account of any changes each time the planning authority adopts a Development Plan Document. What can I say? The consultation process is intended to enable the public to become more involved with the planning system. Most of the documents will come with a simple form for you to put your comments on. The process may seem daunting at first, but the planning authority can help you through the maze. There are no right or wrong answers – just say what you would like to see the planning system do in your area and offer any suggestions you have. However, there are some things that are not relevant to planning (for instance, the effect that the proposal will have on property prices in the area) which you should not include – if you are unsure whether this applies to what you wish to say, officers in your planning authority can advise you. If you are responding to a development plan consultation, there are certain things you might want to mention about wildlife and biodiversity: Has the planning authority identified all the sites in your area that are important for biodiversity? If not, mention them, being as specific as you can. They need not have an official designation – the key thing is that the planning authority knows about them. Are any sites that are important for biodiversity under threat due to proposed site allocations? Local planning pack: step up for wildlife near you Page 3 Encourage the planning authority to look for opportunities to restore or create new habitat in its area. You can even suggest areas where this may be possible. Encourage the planning authority to create green (wildlife) corridors between areas that are important for biodiversity. Make specific suggestions if you are aware of places where this can be done. You could make suggestions about how the planning authority could take steps to maximise the biodiversity in new development schemes, for instance, requiring the developer to build ponds, plant trees, or put up nestboxes. Keeping involved The Local Development Framework documents will go through several rounds of consultation and modification. You should look at the documents at each stage to see if your comments have been incorporated. The final consultation is called the submission stage: if you are still not satisfied that your comments have been fully considered, you must repeat them now or they will not be considered by a Planning Inspector at the independent examination, which follows this stage. You can find out more about the independent examination on the Planning Inspectorate’s website (www.planning‐inspectorate.gov.uk). Local planning pack: step up for wildlife near you Page 4 .
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