Development plans and timetables

Screen

Stages

• Backlog
• Screen
• Research

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These are the questions we answer during the Screen stage.

Answering them wil help us learn more about the Development plans and timetables consideration, determine if a data standard is required and whether we know enough to move on to the next stage.

• What is the 'Development plans and timetables' consideration?

  Development plans are the development plan documents that each planning authority creates to cover their area.

  The timetable is a data representation of the local development scheme (LDS) that sets out the steps and stages a plan will go through during the plan making process

• Is there legislation that defines 'Development plans and timetables'?

  Yes

  • What is the legislation that defines 'Development plans and timetables'?

    Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 - Section 19 defines development plan documents

    Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 - Section 38

  • What is the specific part of the legislation that describes how a 'Development plans and timetables' gets designated?

  • What is the specific part of the legislation that requires the publication of 'Development plans and timetables'?

    The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 - section 19 mandates publication of the documents

    "make a copy of each of the proposed submission documents and a statement of the representations procedure available"

• Who, in law, is responsible for the planning consideration or makes decisions about 'Development plans and timetables'?

  • Planning authorities produce local plans
  • Planning inspectorate examine local plans

• Which organisations do we think should publish the data?

  • Local authorities

• Is the Development plans and timetables a trigger?

  Yes

  • What needs to be done because Development plans and timetables has acted as the trigger?

• Is the Development plans and timetables something to consult during plan making?

  Yes

  • Provide information about when Development plans and timetables is used during plan making

    Local plans will be referred to in other forms of plan making such as neighbourhood plans.

    Also, the policies in the local plan will be used to inform decisions during the planning application process

• Is there any Development plans and timetables data already available?

• Do we think the data should come from a single source?

  No

• Will a data standard be required?

  Yes