South Downs Local Plan

This page contains information on the South Downs Local Plan as well as a number of related topics. From January 2018, the Authority will maintain a brownfield land register for the whole of the National Park. Both this register and the Authority Monitoring Report have just been published (December 2017).

Pre-submission Consultation September – November 2017

The Local Plan sets the policies against which planning applications will be considered and allocates land for a variety of uses. It will replace the existing planning policies operating across the South Downs National Park. In spring 2018 we will submit the first ever Local Plan to the Government for examination. Consultation on this plan closed in November 2017 and we are currently reviewing the representations. The draft plan which was consulted on can be read as a pdf:

• Local Plan Cover – Chapter 3
• Chapter 4 – Chapter 7
• Chapter 8 – Chapter 9
• Chapter 10 – Glossary

Many Evidence and Supporting Documents have been prepared and are available to read. They all support the work on the Local Plan. The earlier Preferred Options Plan is also still available to view.

Local Plan timetable

The timetable (Local Development Scheme March 2018) for the Local Plan is as follows:

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