Central Lincolnshire Local Plan

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Six week consultation begins on the Draft Planning Obligations SPD

Following the adoption of the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan in April 2023, the Developer Contributions Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), now referred to as the Planning Obligations SPD, is being reviewed. A key part of this process is a public consultation on the draft document.

You are invited to take part in this public consultation which runs for six weeks from Wednesday 5 July 2023 to 23:59 on Wednesday 16 August 2023. Any responses received after this date will not be considered.

Further information is available on the consultations page where you can find the consultation document, response form, details of how to comment and contact details.

A paper copy of the consultation document will be available to view at the receptions of City of Lincoln Council, North Kesteven District Council and West Lindsey District Council, for the consultation period, during their normal opening hours where a small number of response forms will also be made available.

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.

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

• Local Plan Live Update April 2023 [pdf / 58.71 KB]

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.

• Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) Jan 2023 [pdf / 285.85 KB]

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.

• SPD Update - Affordable Housing Commuted Sum (July 2022) [pdf / 141.17 KB]

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 Five Year Land Supply Report (2022) [pdf / 2.46 MB]
• Housing Land Supply Assumptions (Oct 2019 with minor update June 2022) [pdf / 1.34 MB]

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.

• 2019-24 Central Lincolnshire Housing Delivery Plan [pdf / 651.63 KB]