Development Plan Documents
Core Strategy
Site Specific Allocations
Development Control Policies
1st East Urban Regeneration Area Action Plan

Supplementary Planning Documents
These are to be prepared after 2008. For further information view the Supplementary Planning Documents webpage.

Other Local Development Framework (LDF) Documents
Local Development Scheme
Statement of Community Involvement
Annual Monitoring Report

Other Relevant Documents
Background Studies
Sustainability Appraisal

The Local Development Framework (LDF)

On the 13th of May 2004, the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 received Royal Assent and became law on 28th September 2004. The change in legislation means that the current Great Yarmouth Borough – Wide Local Plan (Adopted February 2001) will be replaced by a new type of development plan known as a Local Development Framework (LDF).

The Borough – Wide Local Plan (February 2001) will continue to provide planning policy guidance against which planning applications and other development proposals will be assessed until 2007 (although the Local Plans end date is 2006, legislation provides for the plan to be saved for 3 years year).

The primary role of the LDF is to guide the development of Great Yarmouth so as to achieve the planning related vision outlined in Great Yarmouth’s Community Strategy (2020 Vision – the Revised Path to the Future) and to conform with the Regional Spatial Strategy (East of England Plan). The LDF will do this by providing clear policies relating to the location and design of development that will be used in the assessment of planning applications as part of the Development Control process.

For information on the production of the Great Yarmouth LDF visit the LDF Progress Update webpage and download the latest newsletter.

In addition the Norfolk Waste Local Plan and the Norfolk Minerals Plan are being replaced by the Norfolk Waste and Minerals Local Development Framework.