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About our local plan

Applications for planning permission must follow our local plan and national planning policy. It is made up of the following elements:

Local Plan 2040

We are preparing a new local plan to take the place of the Core Strategy and Sites and Policies Plan called Local Plan 2040. See our page for further details.

A revised Local Development Scheme was approved July 2024, which sets out the timetable for producing the new Local Plan.