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11 December 2023 - To support the introduction of stronger planning policies to address the impacts of climate change, consultants have been commissioned by the Council to undertake a Climate Change Study. The findings will help identify policy options and inform the development of revised and/or new policies as part of the Local Plan Review, once this work resumes.
Full details are available on the 2030 Local Plan Review Evidence Base documents page.
26 October 2023 - The review of the Runnymede 2030 Local Plan commenced in January 2021 but was paused in September 2022 due to uncertainty at a national level because of the proposed planning reforms.
A meeting of the Council’s Planning Committee on 28 June 2023, revisited the pause to the Local Plan Review and a high-level timetable for resuming work on the Local Plan, based around three potential options were discussed. Members elected to proceed with the option for preparing a plan under the new plan-making arrangements (expected to commence at the end of 2024).
The Officer Report and minutes from the meeting can be viewed in full on our website.
A further update on the government’s planning reforms was provided at the meeting of the Council’s Planning Committee on 25, October 2023. This included providing information about a further consultation paper, produced by the Government in July 2023, on the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill and its plan making reforms, and setting out a high-level picture of the current and future workstreams of the Planning Policy team up until the new plan making system was expected to commence in late 2024.
The Officer Report and minutes from this meeting can be viewed in full on our website.
At the time that this report was considered by the Planning Committee the revised NPPF had not been published. However, since then (on 26 October) the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill gained Royal Assent and is now an Act. The Government have said that the publication of the updated NPPF should now take place.
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Evidence base documents
The Review of the Runnymede 2030 Local Plan will be underpinned by a range of evidence base documents. These key supporting documents will be made available on our evidenced base documents page once they are finalised.
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