What is a Local Development Framework?

Plymouth is experiencing a period of significant change. There is a real expectation of improving the quality of people's lives in a way that truly reflects the aspirations of local communities. The Local Development Framework intends to 'provide a strong strategic framework to promote investment, guide development and safeguard the built and natural environment'.

What is a Local Development Framework?

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You can think of the Local Development Framework as a folder comprising three different types of Local Development Documents:

• Development Plan Documents which form part of the statutory development plan
• Supplementary Planning Documents which amplify the policies of the statutory development plan
• Supporting Documents which relate to the process of preparing all Local Development Documents

At the heart of the Local Development Framework is the Core Strategy that, together with the emerging Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West, sets out a long term vision and spatial strategy for Plymouth.

The Local Development Framework provides the flexibility to allow the strategy, policies and proposals to evolve in relation to needs, and to update parts of the strategy as required. Public involvement throughout is a key feature of the new system.

Documents

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	Planning Plymouth’s future - a mini guide to everything you need to know about the Local Development Framework. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 1.17MB
	Local Development Framework diagram - view a diagram showing how the Local Development Framework structure works. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 167.5KB
	Local Development Framework newsletter eighth issue - November 2008 edition of 'Involve...' the LDF newsletter. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 1.1MB

To view previous versions of the newsletter please visit our 'Involve...' LDF newsletter archives page.

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