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Archived Local Development Framework

  • The Local Development Framework intends to 'provide a strong strategic framework to promote investment, guide development and safeguard the built and natural environment'

  • Our Core Strategy sets out the overall planning vision and framework for the city from 2006 to 2021 and beyond

  • Area Action Plans (AAPs) are planning policy documents which deliver significant changes in key growth areas, and which conserve the city's historic assets

  • Development Plan Documents (DPDs) are planning policy documents which make up the Local Development Framework (LDF)

  • The Local Development Framework has to be soundly based on a robust, credible evidence base

  • The Local Development Framework (LDF) is made up of a number of documents which together set out the vision, strategy and policies for change

  • Sustainability Appraisals/Strategic Environmental Assessments (SAs/SEAs) are a process of appraising the social, environmental and economic effects of plans strategies and policies from the outset of plan preparation

  • Following changes in the national planning system the South West Regional Assembly is currently producing a new Regional Spatial Strategy covering the period 2006 to 2026

  • The North Prospect Estate is in the process of substantial change in the form of a major renewal and refurbishment project