The Local Development Scheme has to:
- provide a brief description of all the documents to be prepared, their content and the area to which they will relate;
- establish which documents will be become part of the development;
- set out which policies and proposals in the unitary development plan will be replaced by documents in the Local Development Framework and which will be ‘saved’;
- explain the relationship between documents, especially between the core strategy and other development plan documents;
- state which, if any, local development documents are to be prepared on a joint basis with one or more other local planning authorities;
- set out the planned timetable for preparing each document and the key ‘milestones’ to be achieved;
- set out which supplementary planning guidance supports saved policies as well as supplementary planning guidance that will be replaced with supplementary planning documents;
- set out any other supplementary planning guidance which the authority will continue to use as a material consideration in the determination of planning applications; and
- set out an explanation of how progress against the local development scheme, e.g. pre-submission and adoption dates, will be monitored and the local planning authority's approach to reviewing the local development scheme.
The Wigan Local Development Scheme (.pdf, 611Kb) was approved by the council's Cabinet on 22 February 2007. It sets out a programme with key milestones for 2006-2010 (.pdf, 18Kb).
Planning Policy Documents in the Local Development Scheme include:
