As a result of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase act 2004, the planning system has been updated. The St Edmundsbury Local Development Framework (LDF) will replace the adopted replacement Local Plan 2016. The new Local Development Framework (LDF) system aims to simplify the complex nature of plans, speed up the process of creating them, speed up decisions on planning applications, and get the community more involved in the process.
An interactive guide to the new Local Development Framework systemis available on the government's Planning Portal website. This explains the concept behind Local Development Frameworks and the roles of the various documents within them.
The LDF will set out our policies for meeting the community's economic, environmental and social aims for the future, where this affects the development and use of land. Unlike the Local Plan that is a single document, the LDF will comprise a suite of documents, allowing individual sections to be reviewed without having to revise the policies in their entirety.
Local Development Framework documents
