The Replacement Local Plan

The Borough of St Edmundsbury
1.7 The Plan contains land use policies and proposals which will make sure the borough develops in a sustainable way during the period to 2016. In preparing the Plan, the Borough Council has considered the role of the area beyond 2016. The Plan replaces the adopted St Edmundsbury Borough Local Plan 1998.

1.8 The Plan includes a Written Statement and a Proposals Map. Chapters 2 to 12 contain policies against which all applications for development will be considered. Many of the policies are criteria based, providing positive guidance to developers on planning requirements and providing sufficient levels of control to ensure that new development is sustainable. The site specific proposals and allocations in chapters 13 - 15 identify those sites which the Plan identifies for specific uses or where new development will be actively promoted to meet the needs of the borough. The extent of each allocated site is shown on the Proposals Map which is a borough-wide plan and includes Inset Plans for areas where a greater level of detail is necessary. Where there is a contradiction between the Written Statement and the Proposals Map, the Written Statement will prevail.

1.9 The policies and proposals are explained in supporting text which includes a reasoned justification for the policy as well as other information on related, non-land use matters. In all cases, each policy or proposal has a clearly identifiable reference, for example TCR1 (Town Centres and Retailing Policy No. 1) and is printed within a shaded box.