 Purpose
Development planning is a continuous process of looking forward and deciding
on a course of action to improve people's quality of life and the appearance
of our environment in a sustainable way. It involves protecting the best,
improving the worst, and aiming positively to ensure a better quality
of life for everyone, now and for future generations.
Development plans focus on land use development and protection set within
the context of wider social, economic and environmental trends and considerations.
Reflecting national and regional planning policies, development plans
make strategic provision for the long-term use of land and buildings,
providing a framework for local decision making and the reconciliation
of competing development and conservation interests.
They aim to ensure that land use changes proceed coherently, efficiently,
and with maximum community benefit. Development Plans indicate clearly
how local residents, landowners, and other interested parties might be
affected by land use change. They are subject to regular periods of intensive
public consultation, involvement and negotiation.
Decisions on planning applications are made in accordance with the adopted
Development Plan unless other material considerations, relating to land
use development, indicate otherwise.
Existing Framework
Wrexham
Unitary Development Plan. The Unitary Development Plan 1996 - 2011 was adopted by Wrexham County Borough Council on the 14th February 2005.
The plan supersedes existing development plans, namely the Wrexham Maelor Local Plan: Forward to 2001, the Glyndwr District Local Plan and the Clwyd Structure Plan: First Alteration.
Future Local Framework
From September 2005 a new system of local development plans (LDP’s) replaced unitary development plans (UDP’s) in Wales.
The new plans will serve essentially the same purposes as before. However, local planning authorities will now be required to undertake more extensive and meaningful public engagement as part of the plan preparation process.
Public Engagement
The objective is to ensure that all communities will be fully and meaningfully involved in plan preparation from the outset. Activities will be managed through a Community Involvement Scheme which will set out the Council’s:
- principles of community engagement;
- policies in relation to who, how and when it intends to engage the community at each stage in the preparation of its planning policy documents;
- how contributions will feed into decisions;
- how the local planning authority will respond; and
- how these responses will inform subsequent stages of plan preparation.
Key Stages of Plan Preparation
The key stages are:
- Pre-deposit participation to identify critical issues and alternative strategic options.
- Pre-deposit public consultation on the preferred strategy option and proposals, together with their implications.
- Deposit of the Local Development Plan, Sustainability Appraisal, the initial consultation report(s) and relevant supporting documents.
- Consideration of site allocation representations (i.e. suggestions that seek to add, alter or delete a site for a particular use).
- Submission of the Local Development Plan (together with the Sustainability Appraisal, the Community Involvement Scheme, a report on deposit consultation ‘representations’ and responses) to the Welsh Assembly Government.
- Independent examination of the “soundness” of the plan and receipt of the inspector’s report.
- Adoption within eight weeks of receipt of the inspector’s recommendations.
- Annual monitoring and review of the plan within four years from the date of adoption.
Wrexham Local Development Plan
Development Plan Price Guide
Planning Policy
Supplementary Planning Guidance
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