ISLAND PLAN

The last consultation period for the Core Strategy – the Submission report – will start on Friday 12 December 2008 and finish at 5pm on Monday 9 February 2009. The document will be available to view here from the first day of consultation.

Information on the Core Strategy Options consultation period (8 August to 22 September 2008) can be found here.

The Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy Options report can be viewed here.

Information on the Core Strategy Issues and Options consultation period (25 January to 10 March 2008) can be found here.

The Minerals and Waste DPD consultation process will start in 2009.

If you would like to suggest land you think should be considered by the Council over the next 20 years, please complete and return the Sites Proforma. These will then form the basis of the Site Allocations DPD whose consultation process starts in 2009.

The Isle of Wight Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (SFRA) report has been published and can be viewed here.

Update – July 2008

As a result of the recently published Planning Policy Statement 12, we will be reviewing the Local Development Scheme which will be available to view here by the end of the year. All documents other than the Core Strategy will be revised to take account of the new consultation process. However, the adoption and publication dates should remain the same. The Core Strategy will continue to progress with consultation, examination and adoption deadlines remaining unchanged.

However, until we are in a position to formally announce agreed revisions, please treat the current Local Development Scheme as the agreed one for the Island Plan, but be mindful of the fact that changes will occur.

Update – July 2007

In June 2007, the Council reviewed its Local Development Scheme (LDS) which sets out the timetable for producing the Island Plan and details the documents that will be produced. The timetable can be found as Appendix 1 and more details can be found in Appendix 2. Further information can also be found here.

The Government has set in motion changes to the planning policy process, which will see the Unitary Development Plan replaced by a Local Development Framework. The new system came into force (under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004), as of 28 September 2004.

The existing system of producing development plans is seen to be too slow and inflexible and, in order to speed up the process and raise public awareness of the importance of planning, changes are afoot.

If you wish to be kept up-to-date about development of the Island Plan, you can register on-line to receive information, by sending your details to: planning.policy@iow.gov.uk

The existing document, the Unitary Development Plan (UDP), will be replaced by a framework of documents including:

It will be called the ISLAND PLAN

It will be supported by a series of background and research reports:

Also available to download is the 2005/2006 Annual Monitoring Report

The Shoreline Management Plan (SMP1) has also been used as a background paper to developing the Island Plan. We have split this into two documents: Chapters 1-5 and Chapters 6-10.