Development Plan - Strategic Plans
Current and emerging planning policies and proposals that provide a County-wide and Regional framework for local development management and delivery.
Update June 2010 - intention to abolish Regional Spatial Strategies
All Councils have received a letter from Eric Pickles MP (the new Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government), regarding the new Government's intention to abolish Regional Spatial Strategies (i.e. the Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West). Click here for Intention to abolish Regional Spatial Strategies letter
It seems that the adoption of the Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West intended by the previous Government will now not go ahead.
This Council, and local authorities nationwide, are awaiting further information from the new Government as to what will replace Regional plan targets.
Regional
Regional Planning Guidance RPG10 for the South West was adopted in 2001 and sets a vision for the Region to 2016 and beyond. Under the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act (2004), the Plan was given statutory weight and forms part of the development plan as the adopted Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West Region. The plan will be superseded when the emerging new Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West is adopted.
The new Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West due to be finalised following consultation on the Secretary of State's Proposed Changes. This followed the publication of a draft Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West in 2006 which has been subject to public consultation and examination in-public. An independent Panel made a series of recommendations following the examination which were then put to the Secretary of State who subsequently issued the Proposed Changes for consultation.
The adopted Regional Spatial Strategy was due to set the overall housing and employment provision requirement for the Teignbridge plan area as well as providing a spatial planning policy context in which Teignbridge LDF will be prepared.
County-level
The Devon Structure Plan 2001-2016 was adopted in 2004 and sets out strategic planning policies for the whole of Devon (including Plymouth and Torbay). Many policies of the Structure Plan are "saved" through a direction made by the Secretary of State and these currently remain in force as part of the statutory development plan for the Teignbridge plan area until they are replaced through the new Regional Spatial Strategy for the South West once this is adopted.