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East Devon Local Development Framework, the New Local Plan and supporting papers

Existing Development Plan and the emerging Local Plan

Development proposals are judged against the relevant policies of the development plan for the area. In East Devon, this is currently made up of the adopted East Devon Local Plan, the Devon Structure Plan and the Devon Minerals and Waste Local Plans. A general description of key elements of the planning system, including its structure, the determination of planning applications and the Secretary of State's role is provided in a Communities and Local Government publication which can be viewed via this link PDF file The Planning System: General Principles (82KB - 12 April 2007 - PDF Help)

East Devon District Council are in the process of preparing a series of planning policy documents, which together will replace the previous Local Plan.

We are rapidly progressing our new Local Plan (formerly called the Core Strategy part of the Local Development Framework) towards adoption. We intend to produce two documents:

a    )Local Plan Document – this will set out strategic policy for development across East Devon and the full suite of policies for the seven main towns of the district, the West End and countryside areas, but not those villages with Built-up Area Boundaries (see below).  This Local Plan document will also include guidance on Neighbourhood Plan production. As your Parish does not contain any villages with Built-up Area Boundaries, the countryside policies in this document will be applicable.
The timetable may change slightly but we intend to hold a short consultation from 11 May to 11June 2012 in respect to Policy boundaries for towns. Following any revisions arising from this consultation we are then legally required to hold a further period of consultation on the ‘proposed submission document’. We anticipate that the ‘proposed submission document’ will be available to comment on during August and September. Late in 2012 we will send the plan and all comments received during the proposed submission consultation to the Planning Inspectorate in readiness for examination.

b)    Village Development Boundaries Document – this second document will be specifically concerned with development boundaries around villages, allocations of land for development at these villages and other spatially defined policies that may be applicable to villages.
The Village Development Boundaries Document, will follow on after the main Local Plan document (prior to its adoption we will continue to use the ‘saved’ current Local Plan plans for villages).  It will set out policies and boundaries for development at those villages proposed for housing growth and other developments in the main local plan document. Key stages in its production will be:

a)    Summer 2012 – identify potential development sites and proposed criteria for site assessment. Work with Parish Council’s to establish preferred development sites at East Devon villages;
b)    Autumn 2012 – proposed village development sites will be agreed by Council and subject to public consultation;
c)    Early 2013 – we will enter formal stages of consultation and submission in readiness for examination.

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