LDF Progress & The Local Development Scheme
LDF Progress
In June 2008 the Government introduced a number of changes to the plan - making system. Councils are now expected to publish "real-time" information about the progress they are making with their Local Development Frameworks rather than relying on the less frequently updated Annual Monitoring Report (AMR) and Local Development Scheme (LDS)
So if you wish to check where the City Council has got to with the production of the Local Development Framework please add this page to your favourites and visit regularly.
Please be aware that following these changes the City Council will no longer be required to undertake preferred options consultation on any development plan documents. The Council will however be required to demonstrate how it has involved, stakeholders (developers, public utility, service and infrastructure providers etc), hard to reach and community and specific interest groups and, if considered appropriate to the document being prepared, local residents and businesses in the area; in identifying what the plan should include, practical alternative options and the subsequent selection from those alternatives of the final direction of the plan.
Development Plan Documents:
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The inital Core Strategy Preferred Options Report was published for 6 weeks between 28th March and 9th May 2008 and over 500 representations were received. You can view all the comments online together with the Preferred Options document and all the supporting information (including the Sustainability Appraisal) via our consultation website.
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The Core Strategy was scheduled in our 2007 LDS to have reached the "submission" stage by May 2008. In view of the changes made to the planning system, the success of the New Growth Points Bid, the proposed changes to Regional Spatial Strategy and the representations made particularly by the Government Office for the North West, the City Council will undertake a further round of consultation prior to finalizing the Core Strategy for publication.
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The Revised Core Strategy Preferred Options Report (High Res Version
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/ Low Res Version) was approved by Executive Board on January 4th 2010. The Executive Board was asked to approve the revised preferred options for public consultation between January and March 2010. It is then hoped to publish and submit the Core Strategy by the end of 2010. -
The North Liverpool Area Action Plan. This was scheduled in the 2007 LDS to have reached preferred options consultation by May 2008. In view of the significance of the New Growth Point and development prospects for North Shore, Great Homer Street and other parts of this area this DPD will be produced alongside the Land Allocations and City Wide Policies DPD.
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The Land Allocations and City Wide Policies DPD. This was scheduled to reach issues and options consultation in November 2008. However, delays in the production of the Core Strategy have had an effect on the timetable for this document. The Land Allocations and City Wide Policies DPD as a Liverpool wide document will however allow the City Council to focus its resources more effectively as it will not be necessary to produce the East and South Inner Liverpool and the South Liverpool Riverside Area Action Plans which will therefore be deleted from the forthcoming LDS. The consolidation of the statutory elements of the LDF into just two documents reflects current government advice.
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Joint Merseyside Waste Development Plan Document. This document, which is being produced jointly by the five Merseyside Districts and Halton Council, was timetabled to undergo preferred options consultation in January and February 2008 and to reach submission stage in September 2008. In response to the issues and options consultation undertaken to date and additional expert "soundness" assessment, further issues and options type consultation on the spatial strategy & sites was carried out from 17th November 2008 until 9th January 2009. The Preferred Options Report is due to be published in Summer 2009 for further public consultation. Publication of the final document is expected to take place in January 2010, followed by submission to the Secretary of State and then the soundness examination later in that year.
Supplementary Planning Documents:
The 2007 LDS sets out the details of 4 supplementary planning documents (SPDs) currently under production.
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The Liverpool World Heritage Site SPD. A 6 week period of consultation was undertaken in March/April 2009. The comments received will be assessed and reported to the Council in the summer 2009.
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Developer Contributions SPD. Consultation on a draft of this SPD was timetabled for October and November 2007 but has not taken place. This SPD is to be linked to the Core Strategy and therefore cannot be adopted until it has been successfully produced as well. Uncertainties about the development of national policy on this matter has led to development of the draft document being deferred. There is currently no date for consultation. This position will be reviewed in the preparation of the next LDS in June 2009.
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Design for Access for All. This SPD, which is also intended to supplement the Core Strategy when adopted, was timetabled for consultation late 2007. Consultation on a draft document is expected in summer 2009.
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The Ensuring a Choice of Travel Supplementary Planning Document was adopted at the City Council's Executive Board meeting on 19th December 2008. This document is linked to the existing Liverpool Unitary Development Plan (UDP) rather than the Core Strategy.
Local Development Scheme
The Local Development Scheme (LDS) is a programme for the production of planning policy documents. Liverpool's LDS covers the period up to April 2012.
You can download the current LDS here (This was approved by the Executive Board of the City Council on July 31st 2009)
You can get copies of previous LDS' by telephoning the Development Plans Team on 0151 233 3021 or by emailing them at development.plans@liverpool.gov.uk. They are also available to download below.
Previous LDS':
1st Edition LDS - April 2005
2nd Edition LDS - June 2006
3rd Edition LDS - December 2006
4th Edition LDS - June 2007