The Council is required to include a proposals map as part of the LDF. It will show all the policies set out in the development plan documents (DPDs). These policies include areas for protection such as open space and conservation areas, and illustrate locations and identify sites for particular land uses.
The proposals map must be on an Ordnance Survey map at a scale that allows the policies and proposals to be illustrated clearly. The adopted proposals map has the status of a DPD and is a separate document. Each time a new DPD is adopted it must be revised. Separate inset maps are used to show the policies and proposals for area action plans (AAPs).
The current UDP proposals map is saved along with the UDP policies until 28th September 2007. The council has submitted a request to the secretary of state to extend the saved UDP and proposals map until such time as it is replaced by the DPD in the LDF.
Preferred options
The development policies and site allocations DPD and the two AAPs preferred options contain policies, proposals and site allocations that are required to be shown on the proposals map. As the proposals map will be a separate DPD the Council has prepared a separate consultation document that brings together the changes to the UDP proposals map that are proposed as part of the preferred options on the DPD. However, new site allocations are contained in the various DPD and not in the proposals map consultation document.
In effect the existing UDP proposals map is the starting point for the final proposal map. The changes that are put forward for this consultation therefore constitute the ‘preferred options’ for any changes to the UDP proposals map.
The preferred options consultation on the proposals map begins on Friday 17th August 2007 and ends 28th September 2007.
The following documents are relevant to this consultation:
You can also find comments made by respondents to this consultation here.