Blaby District Council

Summary

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) to prepare a Core Strategy (CS) as part of their Local Development Framework (LDF). The Core Strategy is intended to set out the vision, objectives, strategy and core policies for the Spatial Planning of the District. The CS must also address how these policies are to be implemented and monitored. The Council has agreed in September 2011 a project plan (called the Local Development Scheme) which sets out the timetable for producing its Core Strategy and other parts of the Local Development Framework.

The Council is consulting on the LDF Core Strategy (Submission Version) for a 6 week period starting on 19 January 2012. Representations must be received by 1 March 2012 (5.15pm). For more information visit the consultation page.

Downloads

2004 - Issues Paper

• Issue Paper and Youth Issues Paper

2005 - Issues and Options (Version 1)

• Draft Core Strategy (Issues and Options Paper) (Nov 2005) (PDF, 916KB)
• Interim Sustainability Appraisal of the Draft Core Strategy (Issues and Options Paper) (PDF, 267KB)

2006 - Prefered Options

• Draft Core Strategy (Preferred Options Paper) (Apr 2006) (PDF, 422KB)
• Sustainability Appraisal of the Draft Core Strategy (Preferred Options Paper) (PDF, 2,052KB)

March 2008 - Issues and Options (Version 2)

• Draft Core Strategy (Issues and Options Paper) (Version 2) (Mar 2008) (PDF, 66KB)
• Sustainability of Core Strategy: Issues and Options (Version 2) (PDF, 575KB)

November 2008 - Alternative Options

• Core Strategy Alternative Options (Nov 2008) (PDF, 819KB)
• Alternative Options Sustainability Appraisal Report (PDF, 1,125KB)

2009 - Submission Version

• Core strategy (submission version) (PDF, 189KB)
  • Proposals map (PDF, 3,027KB)
  • Key diagram (PDF, 23KB)
  • Appendices (PDF, 269KB)
• Core strategy (submission version) – Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment (PDF, 2,084KB)
• Equalities Impacts and Needs Assessment (PDF, 55KB)

2011

• Pre-submission consultation letter (October 2011) (PDF, 19KB)

Further information

A CS should set out the key ‘strategy and policies’. It should broadly establish the areas for growth and distribution of development (amongst other things). Blaby District had previously proposed that a site be allocated for a Sustainable Urban Extension (SUE) and a Strategic Employment Site (SES). It is now likely that the Core Strategy will identify directions for growth for such developments along with the broad quantity and distribution of development. It will set a framework for all future Development Plan Documents (DPDs) including those that allocate land for development. The CS will cover the period up to 2029.

The Core Strategy is intended to indicate how the Council proposes to accommodate the need for development to provide the homes, jobs and associated infrastructure that will be needed in the District over the plan period in a sustainable way which balances development requirements whilst protecting important areas of the natural and built environment.

Two previous attempts to produce a Core Strategy have commenced but not progressed to submission stage (i.e they were not sent to the Secretary of State or subjected to an independent ‘Examination’). Production of a third version of the document has now commenced. Letters were sent to ‘specific consultation bodies’ (as required by planning regulations) on 28th September 2011 asking what issues they would like to see in the emerging version of the document. The Council will take into account any responses to these letters in preparing a ‘submission’ version of the document which will be subject to wider consultation (in January and February 2012) before submission to the Secretary of State in March 2012 and an Examination in June 2012.

Related pages on this website

• Local development framework

Contact us

Officer / Team	planning Policy Team
Postal address	Blaby District Council Council Offices Desford Road Narborough Leicester LE19 2EP
E-mail address	planning.policy@blaby.gov.uk
Telephone	0116 272 7765
Fax	0116 272 7592

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This page was last updated on 24th January 2012