Vale of Glamorgan Local Development Plan

Your Vale - Your Future

The Vale of Glamorgan Council is preparing a new Local Development Plan (LDP), which will set out how land within the Vale is used between 2011 and 2026. This includes everything from housing developments, community facilities and employment opportunities to transport, waste management and retailing. The proposals and policies in the LDP will eventually replace those in the Adopted Unitary Development Plan 1996 - 2011.

If you wish to be kept informed of progress on the preparation of the LDP or have any queries regarding the Delivery Agreement, please telephone the LDP team on (01446) 700111 or E-mail LDP@valeofglamorgan.gov.uk. Please provide us with your contact details and indicate whether you wish to be contacted in the future in English or Welsh, and by letter or E-mail.

Delivery Agreement

The Council has produced a Delivery Agreement, which sets out the timetable for the preparation of the Plan together with a Community Involvement Scheme that describes how and when stakeholders, including the general public, can get involved.

The Council is required to keep the LDP timetable under regular review and in June 2011 the Council sought agreement from the Welsh Government (WG) to amend it. The amended LDP timetable was agreed by WG in July 2011 and has been incorporated into the Delivery Agreement (Revised June 2011).

The Welsh Government has also published a document entitled Planning Your Community (July 2006) which seeks to encourage community involvement in the new Local Development Plan process in Wales.

Paper copies of the Delivery Agreement (Revised June 2011) have also been placed at various deposit locations across the Vale of Glamorgan.

Draft Delivery Agreement Consultation Comments and the Council's response

Vision

In January 2007, the Council agreed to adopt the vision contained within the Vale of Glamorgan Community Strategy (2003-2013) as the vision for the LDP.

The vision informed the development of the LDP draft preferred strategy which was subject to consultation in January and February 2008. LDP Visioning Paper

Candidate Sites

The Council invited developers, landowners and other interested parties to nominate “candidate sites” for potential inclusion in the emerging LDP between 4 December 2006 and 31 January 2007. Further information on the candidate sites is available.

Draft Preferred Strategy and Initial Sustainability Appraisal Report including key background documents

The production of a Draft Preferred Strategy is one of the first stages in the production of the LDP. Further information on the consultation documents, key background documents, Cabinet Reports and associated documents are available for viewing.

The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes

(Wales) Regulations 2004

On Monday 14 August 2006, the Vale of Glamorgan Council, as the responsible authority, determined that the Vale of Glamorgan Local Development Plan (LDP) is likely to have significant environmental effects and accordingly a Strategic Environmental Assessment will be carried out during the preparation of the Plan and any subsequent reviews of the Plan. You can view the determination and the regulations below.

Strategic Environmental Assessment Determination.

The Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes

Approved Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report

The Approved Scoping Report outlines the initial stage of the Sustainability Appraisal process and establishes the sustainability context and the baseline information for the Vale of Glamorgan. Further information on the Approved Scoping Report is available for viewing.