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Background information of the Local Development Framework
(aka Adur Development Plan)
A Local Development Framework (LDF) is being prepared for the district to ensure that the right amount of development, in particular for new homes and jobs, takes place in the right locations over the next 20 years. It must also ensure that the best of Adur's environmental assets - the countryside as well as green open spaces within the urban area are protected and improved. A Core Strategy and an Area Action Plan for Shoreham Harbour (jointly with Brighton & Hove City Council and West Sussex County Council) are currently being prepared as a part of the LDF.
The new planning system which is in now in place requires development plans (now called local development frameworks) to be prepared in a different format and in a different way. Local Development Frameworks (LDF) will consist of a suite of different documents which can be prepared at different times. This will ensure greater flexibility and enable documents to be prepared more quickly. The timetable for Adur's documents is contained in the Council's Local Development Scheme. This document is currently being reviewed. The Government is putting much more emphasis on community involvement and the new Planning Regulations require local authorities to set down their consultation and involvement intentions in Statements of Community Involvement which are to be themselves subject to consultation and also to public examination. The Planning Policy Team are currently updating the December 2006 statement of community involvement. Consultation with stakeholders is an iterative process and must take place before wider and more formal community consultation. The Government also requires that a number of the LDF documents be subject to a sustainability appraisal to assess their environmental, social and economic impacts.
In addition to specifying the type of documents to be produced, Planning Regulations and Government guidance also set down a number of key stages in the their preparation :
- Evidence gathering
- Consultation with stakeholders and community on a draft plan including options
- Publication of plan (pre-submission)
- Submit Document to Secretary of State (not required for a Supplementary Planning Document)
- Public Examination (not required for a Supplementary Planning Document)
- Receive inspector's report
- Adoption
- Monitoring and review
The new development plan system places more emphasis on the need for good evidence to support policies and strategies. This is necessitating, in many cases, the need to undertake detailed technical studies, often with the help of consultants. A number of studies will support the Local Development Framework.
Want to know more?
For more up to date information on the LDF - see the Core Strategy webpage.
Documents :
In order to produce the Core Strategy a number of technical studies were undertaken. These will be used to inform the review of the Core Strategy.
- Core Strategy Submission Document (.PDF 919kb)
- Statement of Community Involvement (.PDF 165kb)
- Sustainability Appraisal January 2007 (.PDF 409kb)
- Sustainability Appraisal Tables (.PDF 501kb)
- Review of Plans, Programmes and Policies (PPPs) (.PDF 148kb)
- Evidence Document (.PDF 397kb)
- Statement
of Compliance 22/12/2006 (.PDF 2.5Mb note - large
file)
- Site Allocations : Issues and Options
Document
- Public
Notice (.PDF 27kb)
- Technical
studies :
- Adur Local Development Framework Strategic Transport Study (.PDF 5.2Mb note - large file)
- Adur Retail Study :
- Adur Retail Study Volume 1 (.PDF 3.84Mb note - large file)
- Adur Retail Study Volume 2 (.PDF 535kb)
- Employment Land Review :
- Employment Land Review - Report (.PDF 296kb)
- Employment Land Review - Schedules (.PDF 1Mb note - large file)
- Employment Land Review - Annexes (.PDF 152kb)
- East Worthing Access Road Study, January 2006 (.PDF 231kb)
- Open Space, Sport and Recreation Study (.PDF 26.8Mb note - large file)
- Strategic
Level Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) : Part 1 Report (.PDF
536kb)
- Figure A : Worthing and Adur SFRA Allocation Areas v2 (.PDF 896kb)
- Figure D : Worthing and Adur SFRA defences V2 (.PDF 897kb)
- Figure E : Worthing and Adur SFRA Designated Sites V2 (.PDF 1Mb note - large file)
- Figure H : Worthing and Adur SFRA Historic Events (.PDF 908kb)
- Figure L : Worthing and Adur SFRA Landcover (.PDF 892kb)
- Figure M : Worthing and Adur SFRA Model Extents (.PDF 851kb)
- Figure P (.PDF 16kb)
- Figure S (.PDF 15kb)
- Figure T : Worthing and Adur SFRA Topographic Data (.PDF 876kb)
- Figure T2 : Worthing and Adur SFRA Topographic Data V2 (.PDF 3Mb note - large file)
- Figure W : Worthing and Adur SFRA Flood Warning (.PDF 944kb)
- Figure Z : Worthing and Adur SFRA Flood Zones (.PDF 919kb)
- River Adur Catchment Flood Plan :
- RACFP - Document 1 (.PDF 1,049kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 2 (.PDF 1,618kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 3 (.PDF 1,522kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 4 (.PDF 1,652kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 5 (.PDF 1,595kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 6 (.PDF 1,788kb note - large file)
- RACFP - Document 7 (.PDF 296kb)
- Urban Fringe Study (UFS) :
- UFS : Cover, contents and chapters 1 to 4 (.PDF 55kb)
- UFS : Chapter 5 (.PDF 2.4Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 6 (.PDF 600kb)
- UFS : Chapter 7a (.PDF 3.4Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 7b (.PDF 3Mb note - large file)
- UFS : Chapter 8 (.PDF 26kb)
- Urban
Housing Potential Study (.PDF 6.48Mb note - large
file)
- Other documents on our website :
- See also :
Statement of Community Involvement
A Statement of Community Involvement was approved in December 2006 following aspublic examination and this is now being reviewed.
Core Strategy
Annual Monitoring Report
The government requires all local planning authorities to produce Annual Monitoring Reports in order to assess how well they are performing in progressing their Local Developments Frameworks as well as achieving the policies contained in their Local Development Framework documents.
Adur District Council has produced its Annual Monitoring Report for the period 1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007. This report assesses our performance in meeting the timetable milestones (as contained in our project plan - the Local development Scheme) for the various documents which will eventually form our new Local Development Framework. The report also assesses the effectiveness of policies in the adopted Local Plan (saved until 2007) using a number of indicators as advised by the government. For example, the report measures the amount of new employment floorspace and new homes we have provided against the overall requirement as contained in the West Sussex Structure Plan. It also indicates the different types of employment floorspace completed, the number of affordable homes secured and the proportion of new homes provided on brownfield land. Information is also provided for indicators on open space, flood protection, transport and biodiversity.
- Annual Monitoring Report 2007 (.PDF 255b)
This will be rolled forward and submitted to the government again in December 2008.
Previous year's reports :
- Annual Monitoring Report 2006 (.PDF 263b)
- Annual
Monitoring Report 2005 (.PDF 112b)
- Housing trajectory 1 (.PDF 26b)
- Housing trajectory 2 (.PDF 47b)
- Housing trajectory 3 (.PDF 55b)
- Annual Monitoring Report - appendix 2 (.PDF 33b)
Adur District Five Year Housing Land Supply Assessment 2007-2012
Planning Policy Statement 3: Housing (PPS3) published in November 2006, requires Local Planning Authorities to ensure that there is a continuous five year supply of deliverable sites available for housing in the District.
The Department for Communities and Local Government has produced guidance on how to demonstrate a five year supply of deliverable housing sites, with the first assessment covering the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2012.
This assessment has been undertaken and concludes that Adur District Council does have a five year supply of deliverable sites for residential development for the period 2007 to 2012.
The Five Year Housing Land Supply Assessment covering the period 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2012 can be viewed below :
Site Allocations
We were progressing a separate Site Allocations Document. The Site Allocations Document, in line with the Core Strategy, will identify the main sites for development and land uses to meet a variety of needs in the district over the next 20 years including, for example, homes, jobs, shops, leisure and community facilities.
The results of the consultation carried out in 2007 will be useful in helping to draft the new Core Strategy and informing any strategic allocations within this. It will also inform the joint Area Action Plan for Shoreham Harbour.
For more information on the Core Strategy see above.
