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Planning Services
Planning News
Local Development Plan
Following closure of the consultation on the Council’s Main Issues Report in autumn
2010, the Council’s Leadership Panel (on 23 November 2010) approved the LDP strategy,
as well as its format and headline content. View the report considered by the Leadership Panel.
The expected publication date for the proposed LDP, as set out in the Council’s
Development Plan Scheme (DPS), is February 2011, although in agreement with the
LDP Project Board, which oversees the LDP preparation, it had been estimated that
the proposed LDP would be published during the summer of 2011. However, as a result
of the extensive technical assessments that form part of the LDP preparation, the
LDP Project Board recently agreed that the Development Planning & Customers
Team would target November 2011 for the presentation of the proposed LDP (and associated
papers) to a meeting of South Ayrshire Council for consideration. As part of the
paper that will be presented to the Council in November, approval will be sought
for a detailed consultation strategy, as well as an amendment to the DPS, to recognise
the altered LDP timetable.
To give an indication of the extent of the various work strands associated with
the LDP, the main LDP work topics include:
- Preparation of LDP policies;
- Site assessment and selection;
- Strategic environmental assessment;
- Greenbelt review;
- Production of industrial land supply;
- Review of housing needs/demands;
- Planning structure, form and content of Proposed LDP as well as associated supplementary
guidance;
- Preparation of an action programme;
- Reviewing and addressing representations made in response to the LDP;
- Habitats Regulation Appraisal and Appropriate Assessment;
- Strategic flood risk assessment; and,
- Equalities Impact Assessment.
For further information on any of the work topics mentioned above, or for any other
queries relating to the LDP, please contact either the Development Planning &
Customers Team.
Service Standard
The Council has agreed a Service Standard setting out how the Planning Service will
process planning applications for local development. As a useful guide, it encourages
your early engagement with the Planning Service prior to lodging a formal planning
application. It explains what information may be necessary when submitting an application
to the Council and the timescales that you should expect at each stage of the process.
The Standard also sets out how we intend to handle any amendments to your proposals
during the assessment of the application. The Service Standard has been prepared
as a part of the Planning Service Improvement Plan for 2010/11.
Protocol for Consultation on Supplementary Planning Guidance
This draft protocol was approved by the Council's Leadership Panel on 19th May 2009
and provides a basis for public consultation when reviewing the Council's supplementary
planning guidance (SPG). Equally this is a guide for the wider public to raise awareness
of what can be expected from community engagement in the planning policy and guidance
preparation process. When it is established later this year the Development Planning
Forum will consider this draft protocol, and a finalised version will be produced.
Until then, this draft version will be operational so that SPG development may be
progressed in the interim.
Draft Protocol for Public Consultation on Supplementary Planning Guidance