PLANNING IMPLEMENTATION

Planning Implementation

Planning Implementation

Local Development Framework

The Local Plan is being replaced by a Local Development Framework (LDF). The LDF will comprise a series of evidence-based 'local development documents'. These include Development Plan Documents and Supplementary Planning Documents, all of which must undergo full consultation and sustainability appraisal, prior to their adoption by The Council. The new planning system aims to:

be more responsive to changing circumstances.

Increase community involvement throughout the plan making process.

project manage the work and ensure that targets are set and achieved.

Community Plans

The term 'Community Plan' refers to a number of different initiatives:

Parish Plan - Parish Plans are “holistic” or comprehensive in scope. They should set out a vision for how the community wants to develop, and identify the action needed to achieve it. They can include everything that is relevant to the people who live and work in the community, from employment and playgrounds to the design of new buildings and protection of hedges and ponds. They can include any social, environmental or economic issues. It is up to you, the community, to decide what is important to you.

Village Design Statements - A Village Design Statement (VDS) describes the qualities and characteristics that people value in their village and its surroundings. It sets out clear and simple guidance for the design of all development in the village, based on character. It will not stop development and change from happening, but it will help to influence how new development fits into the village.( Enders, 2001, 57)

Market Town Health Check

allows local people to identify the economic, environmental and social strengths and weaknesses of a market town and its surrounding countryside.

helps people identify the impact of changing local circumstances.

is a sound basis for creating an action plan for revitalisation.

A health check not only covers the whole town and its surroundings, but enables people to look at a wide range of connected issues that affect the quality of life. A health check can lead to a vision for the future of the town, from which a plan of action can be prepared.(Bruns, 2008, 139)

Feed of Community Plan into the LDF

Community Plans have two potential roles to play within the local development framework.

Firstly, they offer a very useful source of community led opinions and ideas for how their local village or town should be in the future. Parish Plans and health check studies often identify the problems people perceive in their area, and then seek solutions. In many cases these issues will be common throughout the District, such as the need for affordable housing, but other more local issues may arise which would otherwise go unnoticed.

Secondly, Hart intends to produce and adopt a series of Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD) informed by and based upon relevant content in local community plans. This will include appropriate land use and spatial components of plans produced by parishes. All the matters covered in a Community Plan SPD proposed for adoption must relate to policies in a Development Plan Document or a saved policy in a development ...