Current consultations
Design Code Consultation stage 2
The second stage of public consultation on the Design Code is now closed. The consultation ran from Wednesday 26 February to Wednesday 9 April 2025.
Thank you to everyone who responded to the consultation. We are currently analysing the responses, and a report summarising the consultation and the feedback received will be published on our dedicated Design Code website shortly.
For further information, please visit the Design Code website.
Previous consultations
Design Code Consultation
The Central Lincolnshire Local Plans Team are developing an authority wide Design Code for Central Lincolnshire. This will cover the whole council areas of the City of Lincoln, North Kesteven and West Lindsey and common design issues found in these areas.
The preparation of an authority wide design code is a new national requirement for all councils, brought into force through the Levelling Up and Regeneration Act 2023.
Design codes set out clear design requirements, or ‘rules’, for new development to follow, based upon a vision for the future of an area and design principles or priorities agreed upon with the local community. Once adopted, it will be used in deciding planning applications.
There will be several opportunities for communities and stakeholders to get involved with the development of the Design Code and the findings from each engagement and consultation stage will feed directly into what goes into the Design Code.
The first stage of engagement and consultation on the Design Code is now closed. The consultation ran from Tuesday 10 September 2024 until Tuesday 22 October 2024.
Thank you to all those who responded to the consultation. A report summarising the consultation and the responses received has been published and is available to view on the dedicated Design Code website.
Please visit the Design Code website for further details.
Local Validation List Consultation
City of Lincoln, North Kesteven and West Lindsey worked jointly to develop Local Validation Lists following the adoption of the 2023 Central Lincolnshire Local Plan to ensure a consistent approach is applied, linking directly with the requirements set out in the adopted Local Plan. The Consultation is now closed it ran for six weeks from Wednesday 1 November 2023 until 23:59 on Wednesday 13 December 2023.
For further information about the adopted lists which came into effect from Monday 20 May 2024 please see our supplementary planning documents guidance notes webpage.
Planning Obligations SPD
Following the adoption of the Central Lincolnshire Local Plan in April 2023, the Developer Contributions SPD, now referred to as the Planning Obligations SPD, was reviewed. A six week consultation on the proposed replacement document, known as the Planning Obligations SPD was undertaken between 5 July 2023 and 16 August 2023.
Following this consultation, the comments received were reviewed and a number of changes made to the SPD. Details of the changes made can be found in the Consultation Statement below.
At its meeting on 16 October 2023, the Central Lincolnshire Joint Strategic Planning Committee decided to adopt the SPD complete with the changes proposed and this SPD is now being used to assist in making decisions on planning applications across Central Lincolnshire.
The SPD, its Adoption Statement, the formal Withdrawal Statement of the 2018 Developer Contributions SPD, and the Consultation Statement are all available to download below.