It may be helpful to first look at the this Contents document in order to establish which settlements are addressed in each of the documents in the Report. Settlement policy boundaries are dealt with in Chapter 2

These pages explain what a local plan does, gives details of all the stages which the Second Review Plan has gone through and the details of the contacts in the Planning Policy Team. The information provided includes the text of the adopted First Review Plan, the Pre-inquiry changes (PICs) and the schedules of responses.

A Second Review of the District Local Plan is needed to make sure that the policies and proposals are still up to date and take the Local Plan up to 2011. A "First Deposit" version was published in October, 1999. A Second "Deposit" was published on the 31st January for a six week period of consultation ending on the 14th March, 2002. This Plan together with the Pre-inquiry changes will be considered by the Inspector at the Local Plan Inquiry.

These pages provide information on the progress of the Local Plan Inquiry (LPI), timetables, submission of proofs of evidence and copies of topic papers.