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==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 document]]▼
*[[Core Strategy]]
*[[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Sometimes certain policies from an old document remain effective when that document is superseded.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, http://www.elmbridge.gov.uk/planning/policy/localplan.htm</ref>
===Legal requirements of all local development documents===
They should be prepared in accordance with the [[local development scheme]] and should have regard to [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts2004/40005--c.htm#19]:-
*National policies and advice contained in guidance issued by the Secretary of State,
*The [[regional spatial strategy]] for the region in which the area of the authority is situated, if the area is outside Greater London. Also the RSS for any region which adjoins the area of the authority or the [[Wales Spatial Plan]] if any part of the authority's area adjoins Wales
*The [[spatial development strategy]] if the authority is [[London borough]] or if any part of the authority's area adjoins [[Greater London]]
*The [[community strategy]] prepared by the authority and also any other authority whose area comprises any part of the area of the [[local planning authority]]
*Any other local development documents which has been adopted by the [[local planning authority|authority]]
*The resources likely to be available for implementing the proposals in the document
*Such other matters as the Secretary of State prescribes.
*They should comply with the [[statement of community involvement]] (once the statement is adopted)
*The [[local planning authority]] must appraise the sustainability of each development plan document and report the findings.
Development plan documents are subject to rigorous procedures of community involvement, consultation and independent examination. Once adopted, [[development control]] decisions must be made in accordance with the DPDs unless material considerations indicate otherwise.
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