We have just uploaded a video to Youtube which we hope will help people to understand what the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan is all about, it lasts about 6 minutes and covers all of the topics addressed by the Main Issues Report and also briefly sets out what a Local Development Plan is.
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I commend the initiative but find this video confusing.
The Planner states that the IMF LDP is the first of the 'Local' development plans. This is surely not strictly true, since the HwLDP is also in fact still an LDP or is it? What is its legal status? There surely needs to be much more clarity around the subject of the exact meaning of 'Local'.
We are now not in the previous system where effectively the old 'Structure Plan' was the 'Overarching Strategic Document' and the 'Local Plan' provided the site specific detail and the Local Plan had to relate to the 'Structure Plan'.
Update:
The Development Plans team have put up the following response to this post (to which I am putting together a response):
...Thank you for your comment which I have just read on your blog.
We set out in the Development Plan Scheme how the Local Development Plans are being produced and we are in the process of putting together an article to explain the relationship between the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan and the Highland-wide Local Development Plan for our Blog and this will be available soon.
Given the large area that The Highland Council produces development plans for The Highland Council has taken the approach of having one Local Development Plan which contains the vision, spatial strategy (including some major land allocations) and general policy approaches. Then a total of three area local development plans will be produced which will fill in the local detail to help achieve the vision and spatial strategies which are set out in the Highland-wide Local Development Plan.
We have chosen to bring forward this method of delivering development plans in Highland to help us to meet the legislative requirements of having a local development plan covering the planning authorities area which is no more than 5 years old.
Both the Highland-wide Local Development Plan and the area Local Development Plans will hold equal status in the decision making process.
Other Local Planning Authorities have taken this approach to bring forward more than one local development plan for example to have land use allocations and show where minerals could be extracted.
We hope that this has helped to clarify the situation.
Update:
The Development Plans team have put up the following response to this post (to which I am putting together a response):
...Thank you for your comment which I have just read on your blog.
We set out in the Development Plan Scheme how the Local Development Plans are being produced and we are in the process of putting together an article to explain the relationship between the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan and the Highland-wide Local Development Plan for our Blog and this will be available soon.
Given the large area that The Highland Council produces development plans for The Highland Council has taken the approach of having one Local Development Plan which contains the vision, spatial strategy (including some major land allocations) and general policy approaches. Then a total of three area local development plans will be produced which will fill in the local detail to help achieve the vision and spatial strategies which are set out in the Highland-wide Local Development Plan.
We have chosen to bring forward this method of delivering development plans in Highland to help us to meet the legislative requirements of having a local development plan covering the planning authorities area which is no more than 5 years old.
Both the Highland-wide Local Development Plan and the area Local Development Plans will hold equal status in the decision making process.
Other Local Planning Authorities have taken this approach to bring forward more than one local development plan for example to have land use allocations and show where minerals could be extracted.
We hope that this has helped to clarify the situation.
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