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Planning Services
Development Planning
Local Development Plan
The Local Development Plan (LDP) is the new strategic land use document that, when
complete, will replace the South Ayrshire Local Plan and the Ayrshire Joint Structure
Plan as part of the wider modernisation of planning. It will set out strategic spatial
priorities and policies for South Ayrshire and will secure land zoning for specified
uses (e.g. land for housing/industry etc.) to provide increased certainty for development.
The preparation of the LDP will take place over the next 5 years and it is intended
that it will be adopted in 2013.
A number of documents will be produced as part of the process of preparing the LDP.
Each of these processes will appear on this section of the website as below. Relevant
papers and documents can be accessed, as and when published, via the following links:
South Ayrshire Local Development Plan Update
Progress & Publication of the Proposed 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.
Revisions to DPS
It is a requirement of the Scottish Government that a local authority publishes
a DPS on an annual basis, to provide an up-to-date timetable for the preparation
of its LDP. As such, the Council requires to produce an amended DPS in March 2011.
Given the proposed minor delay to the production of the Proposed LDP, the Scottish
Government agrees that it is appropriate for the amended DPS to accompany the publication
of the Proposed LDP, so that the timetable can be accurate at the point of publication.
In amending the timetable for the LDP, it is proposed to assess whether there is
scope to reduce the timescale initially estimated for later stages in the process
of the LDP, so as to avoid delay to the adoption of the LDP, where possible.