North Lincolnshire Council is preparing a new single Local Plan for North Lincolnshire.  Once agreed (formally adopted), it will replace the current North Lincolnshire Core Strategy and the Housing and Employment Land Allocations Development Plan Documents (DPDs).

The Plan Review has now reached Stage 6: Submission and Examination:  

• On 11 November 2022 North Lincolnshire Council submitted its draft Local Plan to the Secretary of State for an Examination in Public, under Regulation 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.
• In response, the appointed Inspectors responded with some initial queries on 15th December 2022.

Next Steps – An Examination in Public (led by the Inspectors) will be held during 2023.  At present the date for these sessions is not set. 

Any landowner or developer wishing to speak or be represented at the sessions will need to make contact with the appointed Programme Officer.

To contact us for professional representation either fill in the form at the bottom of this page, e-mail [email protected] or call 01522 581 383.

Why is the review taking place?  The process for preparing statutory Local Plans is set out in the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. Regulation 19 represents the final stage of the plan making process, prior to submission to Government for examination. The Regulation 19 version of the North Lincolnshire Local Plan represents the version of the plan that the Council intends to have a final consultation upon prior to submission to Government for Examination in Public.

The North Lincolnshire Local Plan publication version has been built upon the extensive work carried over our plan making period. The stages of this process have been:

•  Issues and Options (Regulation 18) (2018) – the first stage of the process and set the scope of the new local plan and presented key issues along with a number of options;
• Preferred Options (2020) – informed by the issues and options stage, this stage established the Council’s preferred spatial strategy

What is a Local Plan and how does it affect you? A Local Plan sets out:

• The vision and objectives for the future development of the area, addressing needs and opportunities in relation to housing, the economy, community facilities and infrastructure – as well as a basis for safeguarding the environment, adapting to climate change and securing good design.
• The policies and proposals will guide decisions and investment on development and regeneration up to 2036.

If you would like us to represent you, we make the process as simple as possible and will deal with all communication with the Council. In most cases all we need to get things started is the location of the site and we can handle everything else from there.  Contact us today for a quotation.

To contact us for professional representation either fill in the form at the bottom of this page, e-mail [email protected] or call 01522 581 383.