Saturday, 6 September 2008
As part of the new planning system in England, local authorities have to prepare a 'local development framework'. The new system will replace the existing development plan, the Doncaster Unitary Development Plan (see UDP). The new LDF will provide the basis for determining planning applications and future development in the borough.
The framework will include the policies, proposals and other documents about land use and spatial planning in the borough.
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The Doncaster Local Development Framework (LDF) will be produced, and once adopted, will replace the Unitary Development Plan. Unlike the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) the LDF will not be a single document but will consist of several smaller documents, which will allow quicker revision and alterations.
It will comprise of Development Plan Documents (DPDs) – topic based documents, Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) - non-statutory documents, and a Proposals Map, illustrating the spatial extent of policies to accompany the DPDs. The Core Strategy DPD will set out the vision, objectives and a monitoring and implementation framework.
Local communities and stakeholders are encouraged to be involved in the preparation of LD documents, how this will be achieved will be explained in the Statement of Community Involvement. Performance and progress of the LDF against a set of indicators will be documented in the Annual Monitoring Report. A Local Development Scheme that sets out all the documents that the LDF will produce has already been published. Preparation of each DPD will incorporate Sustainability Appraisal.
A comprehensive Evidence Base of survey and monitoring information will be collected to identify the characteristics of the borough in support of the LDF.
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The LDS is the programme for the LDF. This has been updated in June 2007 and is available to download from the Local Development Scheme page.
