Local Plans 1: What is a local plan and how are they prepared?
Darren McCreery, a Planning Inspector specialising in Local Plans, introduces the local plan. A local plan addresses housing needs and other economic, social and environmental priorities by setting a foundation for longer-term decision making of how a place should change over the next 15 years or so.
A local planning authority - usually the council - is responsible for putting the plan together. To do so, it must run a range of consultations - some consultation is required by law while some is carried out voluntarily to further help inform the content of the plan.
Local plan preparation can be quite lengthy, sometimes taking numerous years, but it is important for the community to participate. Councils often provide numerous ways for people to stay up to date on how the plan is progressing - and they are required to produce a local development scheme which sets out the detail of their work on local plans and is a good place to start looking if more information is not readily available.
For more information, find the Planning Inspectorate's guidance on Local Plans here: www.gov.uk/guidance/taking-pa...
1. 00:00 - Introduction to plan making
2. 00:56 - Who prepares plans and why?
3. 01:27 - Consultations
4. 02:07 - How to get involved and stay informed of a plan preparation
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I have lived in this area for 11 years and have been very happy here. It was a semi rural area but there have been about 10,000 houses built. The Thomas Harley Trust want to sell more land for even more houses. There has not been any increase in providing infrastructure to provide for residents. Schools, GP practices and the pharmacies have had to cope with an increase. The Neighborhood Plan provided a future for the area but this seems to be ignored along with local residents' concerns.
Why, during this video, are Neighbourhood plans not mentioned once? Surely they are the bedrock upon hich Local Plans are built? Why do we bother constructing Neighbourhood Plans, which take years, if the Local Planning system appears not to acknowledge them?