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  • Draft process of creating a local plan under the new plan-making system which covers getting ready, preparing the plan, examination, adoption and monitoring.

  • Draft guidance on how local planning authorities must engage with certain consultation bodies and the local community on their local plan to get a range of views on the area’s future.

  • The local plan examination process and the role the Planning Inspectorate plays.

  • This note includes a template for local planning authorities to use (in the legacy system) to provide evidence about the housing land supply assumed in a local plan in the context of relevant national policy and guidance.

  • Draft information on what local planning authorities need to do to pass through Gateway 1 and start the 30-month plan preparation process.

  • Draft information on how local planning authorities should get ready to adopt a plan within 30 months.

  • Discover and register for Planning Inspectorate webinars.

  • Guidance on use of artificial intelligence (AI) as part of any appeal, application or examination being dealt with by the Planning Inspectorate.

  • Follow the approved planning data standard in this guidance for local plan timetables, minerals and waste plan timetables and your local plan housing requirement.

  • How to create and keep your timetable up to date.

  • Draft information on how local planning authorities can collect, map and analyse baselining data, to inform local plans under the new plan-making system.

  • A draft guide to categorising and assessing sites, including suggested methodologies and information to record to support future examination.

  • Local planning authorities (LPAs) must calculate and publish local plan housing requirement data.

  • The draft requirements and process for local planning authorities to follow when preparing a vision as part of the 30-month plan-making process.

  • Draft information on what local planning authorities must do to meet the legal requirement to give notice of intention to commence their 30-month plan preparation process.

  • The Planning Inspectorate maintains a list of the overall position for each LPA and a list of local plan examination hearing dates we are holding over the next few months

  • Draft guidance to understand how to identify potential sites in your area for development, including the size and type of sites you’ll need.

  • Draft guidance on identifying, assessing and selecting sites for development as part of the local plan making process.

  • This roadmap sets out when guidance, tools and funding will become available to support you in creating your new local plan. 

  • Draft guidance to understand how to take sites you've assessed in the previous stage and decide which you should propose for allocation in your local plan.