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==Composition==
The local development documents ''taken as a whole'' must set out the authority's policies relating to the ''development and use of land'' in their area. In the case of LDDs included in a minerals and waste development scheme, the LDDs together must also set out the authority's policies relating to minerals and waste development.
 
Each framework will be a folder containing a number of inter-related documents. The Core Strategy, development plan documents and statement of community involvement are compulsory, with other documents being optional.
 
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To achieve this goal, the Annual Monitoring Report includes a range of local and standard (Core Output) indicators.
 
===Optional development plan documents===
*Area action plan: an optional development plan document aimed at establishing a set of proposals and policies for the development of a specific area (such as a town centre or an area of new development) of a district authority. There is no limit on the number of area action plans that a local authority can develop.
*[[Supplementary planning document]]s
*Supplementary planning documents: established as part of the [[Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004]] in [[United Kingdom]] law, SPDs may cover a range of issues, thematic or site-specific, and provides further detail of policies and proposals in a 'parent' development plan document.
*[[Local development order]]s
*[[Simplified planning zone]]s
 
Sometimes certain policies from an old document remain effective when that document is superseded. These policies are known as "saved" policies.<ref>Elmbridge Council, {{cite web|url=http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplan.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717190026/http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplan.htm |archivedate=2015-07-17 }}</ref>
 
==Key government aims==
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#Soundness – local development documents must be soundly based in terms of their content and the process by which they are produced. The must also be based upon a robust, credible evidence base.
 
==Relation==
The local development framework, together with the [[regional spatial strategy]] will provide the essential framework for planning in the [[local authority]]'s area.
 
==Development plan documents==
''Local development documents'' are a set of documents specified in [[United Kingdom]] planning law which a [[local planning authority]] creates to describe their strategy for development and use of land in their area of authority.
 
Established as part of the [[Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004]] in [[United Kingdom]] law, a local planning authority must include as local development documents in their [[local development scheme]]s.
 
The local development documents ''taken as a whole'' must set out the authority's policies relating to the ''development and use of land'' in their area. In the case of LDDs included in a minerals and waste development scheme, the LDDs together must also set out the authority's policies relating to minerals and waste development.
 
The [[Secretary of State (United Kingdom)|Secretary of State]] may prescribe the form and content of LDDs and which descriptions of those documents are development plan documents (which are to be subject to the process of independent examination and which will form part of the authority's development plan). Development plan documents taken together are broadly equivalent to the old-style [[local plan]]s.
 
===Compulsory development plan documents===
 
*[[Core Strategy]]
*[[Development plan document]]s
*[[Statements of community involvement]]
 
===Optional development plan documents===
*Area action plan: an optional development plan document aimed at establishing a set of proposals and policies for the development of a specific area (such as a town centre or an area of new development) of a district authority. There is no limit on the number of area action plans that a local authority can develop.
*Supplementary planning documents: established as part of the [[Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004]] in [[United Kingdom]] law, SPDs may cover a range of issues, thematic or site-specific, and provides further detail of policies and proposals in a 'parent' development plan document.
*[[Local development order]]s
 
Sometimes certain policies from an old document remain effective when that document is superseded. These policies are known as "saved" policies.<ref>Elmbridge Council, {{cite web|url=http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplan.htm |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150717190026/http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplan.htm |archivedate=2015-07-17 }}</ref>
 
===Legal requirements of all local development documents===