Development Plans

The Planning and Compensation Act 2004 put in place a hierarchy of development plans.  These include:

• Regional spatial strategies; these outline strategic priorities and policies and also form part of the statutory development plan for individual local authority areas;

• Local development frameworks; made up of a number of development plan documents[DPD] including a core strategy, area action plans for areas of change and development, and development control DPDs; and

• Supplementary planning documents [SPD], which give further detail on approved policies and how they work; these can include topics such as planning contributions for sport and recreation.

It is planned to replace regional spatial strategies with regional strategies, from the spring of 2010.  It is intended the new strategies will include ‘priorities for widening access to culture, media and sport’.

CLICK here for further details of development planning policies relevant to planning contributions for sport.

CLICK here for CLG proposals on regional strategies