Local Development Plan

LDPs are replacing Unitary Development Plans (UDPs) and will start being adopted from 2011 onwards. They are concerned with land use and will express how an authority area will develop, change or be conserved over a 10 - 15 year period. LDPs must take account of the Wales Spatial Plan and as part of the first stages of preparation, local authorities are required are required to agree and adopt a Community Involvement Scheme, setting out how local communities, the third sector, business, the public sector and WG will be engaged in the process. This should reflect the corporate approach to community engagement and where possible, joint engagement in developing the Community Strategy and the LDP is recommended. The local plans and strategies (or elements of them) that may have been subsumed into or aligned with the LDP include:

• Local Housing Strategy (inc local homelessness strategy and BME housing strategy)

• Supporting People Operational Plan

• HRA Business Plans (for authorities retaining housing stock)

• Local Transport Plan

• Contaminated Land Remediation Strategy

• Rights of Way Improvement Plan

• Local Air Quality Management Plan

• Municipal Waste Management Strategy

• Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Plan