Delivering Regeneration

The following Core Strategy objective is monitored on this page.

Area Action Plans have now been completed, or advanced to a stage where they provide a body of evidence that can be used to inform planning decisions, for the city’s priority regeneration areas – i.e. the Waterfront Regeneration Areas, as well as key opportunity areas on Plymouth’s Eastern and Northern corridors.

In addition to this, a considerable evidence base has also been prepared for the remainder of the city outside the AAP areas, through the work carried out for the Sustainable Neighbourhoods DPD. This information can now be used to inform the planning process in a way that helps to deliver local community needs.

We now have to have regard to changes to the national legislative framework, as defined in the Localism Act 2011. In addition we need to review the Core Strategy to ensure it continues to deliver the city’s vision. The Council is preparing a new style Local Plan – to be called ‘The Plymouth Plan’, the timetable for this is suggested in the Local Development Scheme.

This new style Plan will remain strategic in nature, setting out a vision and path to improvement, as well as establishing strategic policies to guide change and deliver corporate priorities. It will take account of new requirements such as the Duty to Cooperate with surrounding authorities, and the expectation to involve a wide range of participants. It also provides an opportunity to bring together our corporate strategies and plans.

If you would like to be kept informed with progress on this please register on the consultation portal.

Regenerating the city’s vacant and derelict sites

Vacant and derelict brownfield sites are an important resource in the development of sustainable communities. In built-up areas, where the pressure on land is high, they can provide the land for development such as housing or employment uses, or they can provide sites for recreation or for wildlife habitats.

We monitor progress in the regeneration of the city’s vacant and derelict sites through the National Land Use Database of Previously Developed Land (NLUD).

The increase shown from 2010 to 2011 is partly due to an increase in vacant and derelict sites. However it is also due to an improvement in our methods for identifying long term vacant business premises in the city.

In our October 2011 survey we were able to identify 89 vacant and derelict sites and buildings. Together these amount to 57 hectares of land.

We will assess these sites when we update our Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) to ensure that we make the best use of this land.

This page of the annual monitoring report was last updated December 2011.