Central Lincolnshire Local Plan

Adopted Central Lincolnshire Local Plan

At the Central Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee (CLJSPC) meeting on 13 April 2023, the new Central Lincolnshire Local Plan was formally adopted. It will be used in making decisions on planning applications across the City of Lincoln, North Kesteven District and West Lindsey District areas replacing the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan adopted in 2017.

The new Local Plan is pioneering in placing climate change at its core and will help ensure Central Lincolnshire is a net zero carbon area.

Links for the Adopted Central Lincolnshire Local Plan and associated documents are provided below. For enquiries about paper copies of the Local Plan and Policies Maps, please contact the Local Plan Team on talkplanning@central-lincs.org.uk.

Please note this web site is in the process of being updated following adoption of the new Local Plan. If you have any queries, please contact the Local Plan Team on talkplanning@central-lincs.org.uk.

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Local Plan Adopted 13 April 2023

At the Central Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee (CLJSPC) meeting on 13th April 2023, the new Central Lincolnshire Local Plan was formally adopted. It will be used in making decisions on planning applications across the City of Lincoln, North Kesteven District and West Lindsey District areas replacing the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan adopted in 2017.

The new Local Plan is pioneering in placing climate change at its core and will help ensure Central Lincolnshire is a net zero carbon area. The new Local Plan introduces a number of new policies to guide development in Central Lincolnshire, including:

  • Climate change – an ambitious and ground breaking set of policies aimed at making Central Lincolnshire net zero carbon, including in making sure new homes are efficient, attracting renewable energy generation, and ensuring new homes are adaptable to climate change.
  • Housing – new housing sites, capable of meeting our needs to 2040 and policies to ensure that the housing is in the right location and will be well designed.
  • Jobs – protection of existing employment sites and land available for more employment development in locations where housing is or will be built.
  • Shopping and city/town centres – policies to enhance our city and town centres and ensure they remain a destination, and to protect local centres which provide essential services across the area.
  • Tourism – policies to support the tourism industry in Central Lincolnshire and to ensure that any tourism development is in the right location.
  • Environment – a suite of policies seeking to protect our environment including delivering biodiversity net gain, protecting our valued landscapes, protection of high quality agricultural land, and protecting trees and hedgerows.
  • Infrastructure – policies to help ensure that the infrastructure needed to support new development is delivered in the right places.
  • RAF Scampton – a policy which will allow the future redevelopment of this site be properly planned to deliver great benefits to Central Lincolnshire.

To view the plan and associated documents, please see above.

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Local Plan Review Latest LDS and Live Update

The Local Plan has now been updated – see above. The Local Development Scheme (LDS) will be updated in due course when a timetable of plans being reviewed is available

Revised Statement of Community Involvement adopted 2023

The Joint Strategic Planning Committee at their meeting on 9 January 2023 approved a revised Statement of Community Involvement (SCI).

The SCI outlines how the committee expects to involve and consult the public and stakeholders when preparing planning policy documents and supplementary planning documents. It also outlines how and when the public can have their say on planning applications determined by the three districts and what support will be made available for groups undertaking neighbourhood planning.

The revised Statement of Community Involvement is available to download below.

Affordable Housing Commuted Sum 2022 annual update

In accordance with Appendix 4 of the Developer Contributions SPD, the commuted sum for Affordable Housing has been recalculated and is available to download below and on the SPDs and Guidance Notes page.

Latest Central Lincolnshire Five Year Land Supply Report now published

The latest Central Lincolnshire Five Year Land Supply Report (2022) has now been published.  The report is available to download below.

Central Lincolnshire Housing Delivery Plan approved 14 January 2019

The 2019-24 Central Lincolnshire Housing Delivery Plan is an update to the 2016 Housing Growth Delivery Plan which was approved by the Central Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee on 14 January 2019. The Housing Delivery Plan sets out how we intend to deliver  the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan housing targets.

The new Housing Delivery Plan is available to download below, on the Local Plan page and in the Local Plan Supporting Information section of the Planning Policy Library.

 

About Central Lincolnshire

We are responsible for producing the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan which will contain planning policies that relate to the delivery and management of development in Central Lincolnshire.

Local Plan Review - Adopted

The Local Plan Review is proposed to replace the Local Plan adopted in 2017. It addresses a range of issues such as climate change, housing, employment, shopping and more.