Local Plan

The Telford and Wrekin Local Plan sets a vision and framework for our Borough’s development. The plan focuses on creating sustainable communities, combatting climate change, providing better homes for everyone, protecting our green spaces and natural environment, and improving the health and wellbeing of all residents. 

Our Local Plan proposals will: 

• Protect our green spaces
• Care for our existing communities 
• Invest in the future.

It will do this and benefit our residents by:

• Providing more quality homes which local people in Telford and Wrekin can afford. 
• Providing new homes to meet the needs of our community, including homes for our young people, families and older people. 
• Providing more energy efficient buildings helping to lower the cost of running homes and businesses. 
• Retaining Telford and Wrekin’s proud identity as one of the greenest places in the country by protecting our heritage and enhancing our green spaces for people and wildlife.
• Investing in our established communities by revitalising borough towns and tackling derelict and vacant sites that blight local people’s daily lives. 
• Securing new jobs through new land for existing businesses to grow and new business to invest in Telford and Wrekin. 
• Securing new and improved infrastructure for the future, including six new schools, expanded GP surgeries and improving transport networks. 
• Tackling climate change by introducing policies to reduce carbon emissions and improve sustainability. 

What is a Local Plan?

A Local Plan sets out a vision and a framework for the future development of an area. 

It helps to set the land use planning policies in areas, such as, adapting to climate change, protection of green and natural environment, types of homes that are needed, what infrastructure is needed to support development, how developments should be designed and the protection of the historic environment. 

Local Plans are central to the planning system and provide development management policies that all planning decisions are to be measured against. 

Local Plans also help set out where new housing and employment development will be brought forward in an area. This is important as a plan led approach helps protect areas form unwanted speculative development and provides a longer term view for planning education, transport, health and utilities infrastructure. 

The Telford and Wrekin Local Plan (TWLP) is the Development Plan for the borough. It is central to delivering plan led growth and is the starting point for assessing planning applications in the borough. 

Why are the Council reviewing the Local Plan?

The TWLP 2011-2031 was adopted in January 2018 and all Local Planning Authorities are required by Government to review the local plans every 5 years following adoption under The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012. The purpose of a review is to take account of changing circumstances affecting the area, as well as any relevant changes in national policy. 

The Borough is therefore required to comply with regulations and ensure its Local Plan is up to date and in conformity with the revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). This approach provides the best means of protecting valued places and spaces and resisting unwanted speculative development. 

As the review progresses the council will make relevant consultation and evidence related material available. 

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