Development Plan Documents (DPDs)

Core Strategy

What is the Core Strategy?

The Core Strategy DPD will set out the key elements of the planning framework for the area. It will comprise a spatial vision and strategic objectives for Pendle. The Core Strategy will contain planning policies that set out the Council's preferred approach to the way in which the borough will develop in the long-term to 2021.

How is the Core Strategy prepared?

Current status of the Core Strategy

Issues and Options Consultation (Regulation 25)

The Issues and Options consultation on the Core Strategy and Land Use Allocations (site search) closed on the 18th August 2008. During the 6 week consultation period the Council received approximately 200 representations. These will be publicised in due course, along with the Council's response following the consideration of comments and sites put forward.

Previous work stages

"You Choose" consultation

A joint public consultation exercise between the Planning Department and Pendle Partnership was undertaken during the summer and autumn of 2007 called "You choose the future of Pendle". Responses to this extensive consultation process have helped to shape the Core Strategy Issues and Options Report, as well as the new Pendle Sustainable Community Strategy.

SEA/SA

Pendle Borough Council has determined that, in accordance with the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Programmes Regulations 2004, the Core Strategy DPD is likely to have significant environmental effects and that a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is required. View the Core Strategy Screening Statement and Determination in the downloads section below.

The scoping report is the first stage of the SEA/SA process. It outlines Entec's proposed methodology for undertaking the sustainability appraisal and it sets out the baseline social, economic and environmental issues that Pendle faces as well as identifying those that are considered to be most significant. The baseline can then provide the basis for prediction and monitoring of significant environmental or other sustainability effects that may derive from the implementation of the Local Development Framework.

A five week consultation period was run between Monday 30th October and Monday 4th December 2006. The report was also sent to the Environment Agency, English Heritage and Natural England in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004.

The final version of the scoping report comprises the submitted scoping report and consultation responses on the submitted report.