Joint Local Plan
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stoke-on-Trent City Council are working together to prepare a new Joint Local Plan that will guide the future development of both areas up to 2033. This will replace the existing Core Spatial Strategy and the remaining saved policies from the Newcastle-under-Lyme Local Plan 2011 and Stoke-on-Trent City Plan 2001.
Public involvement at key stages in the Plan’s preparation is very important. The first public consultation took place between the 15 February and 29 March 2016, when the councils consulted on the Issues that the evidence underpinning the new plan had identified and that the plan may need to address. The results of this consultation have been published in the Issues Consultation and Responses Document.
Joint Local Plan Strategic Options Consultation
The second opportunity to have your say and help shape this important new Plan is by sending your views on the Strategic Options consultation document (PDF, 11.37Mb). Please note that the original Strategic Option 5 map was published incorrectly and has now been replaced with the correct version Strategic Option 5 Map (PDF, 971Kb).
This consultation began on Monday, 17 July, 2017, and will run for four weeks, closing on Tuesday 15 August (NOW EXTENDED TO 5PM TUESDAY, 22 AUGUST 2017).
We want your views on:
- A new vision for the area,
- The aims and objectives to achieve that vision,
- Potential levels of economic and housing growth and
- The broad locations where employment and housing development could go.
To find out more about the consultation and to access the consultation documents and feedback form, please follow this link to the Joint Local Plan webpage.
If you wish to be added to the Joint Local Plan consultation database then please send your e-mail address to planningpolicy@newcastle-staffs.gov.uk . Alternatively, write to Planning Policy, Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Civic Offices, Merrial Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2AG including your name, building number, street and postcode. Without a building number or postcode we will not be able to contact you.
Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent Core Spatial Strategy status
The adopted Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent Core Spatial Strategy will remain part of the approved development plan for the area, as will the saved policies of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Local Plan 2011, until the new Joint Local Plan is adopted. Planning applications will continue to be assessed against these policies although the weight given to them is dependent upon their closeness to policies within the National Planning Policy Framework.
Withdrawal of the Newcastle-under-Lyme Site Allocations and Policies Local Plan
Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council decided to withdraw the Newcastle-under-Lyme Site Allocations and Policies Local Plan on 11 December 2013 and instead prepare the new Joint Local Plan with Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
Community Infrastructure Levy
Following the decision to prepare the new Joint Local Plan, the Borough Council has suspended its work on introducing a community infrastructure levy charge. This will be kept under review as work on the Joint Local Plan progresses.
The work of the planning policy team
The planning policy business unit is mainly involved in writing sets of policies which state the unique social, environmental and economic characteristics of the borough and aim to direct investment to deliver spaces, places and buildings which improve quality of life.
All planning applications in the borough should be determined in accordance with the Development Plan. This currently consists of the Core Spatial Strategy and saved Local Plan policies. Further information about the current Development Plan can be found by following the link below:
Monitoring
Monitoring is an important part of evidence-based policy making. It plays a major role in the development, revision and adjustment of local planning policies, ensuring that the policies are up to date and reflect changing issues and challenges.
Councils can publish their monitoring information in an "Authority Monitoring Report" (AMR), which can be published on an annual basis if the local planning authority wishes to do so. The progress towards preparing individual planning policy documents, progress on policies and related targets (national and local) including evidence of a five-year land supply are all topics that can be covered within an AMR. Between 2005 and 2011 the Borough Council published an AMR on an annual basis. From 2012 onwards the Five Year Housing Land Supply Statement has been published on an annual basis, without the need for a full AMR. All of these reports can be viewed via the following link: Planning Policy Monitoring Information
Further Information
For more information on the work done by the planning policy team, please follow the links below –