Local Plan core strategy

Summary

Local Planning Authorities must, by law, prepare a development plan for their area to coordinate land use and new development. Great Yarmouth Borough Council's new style Local Plan directs where new development will take place across the plan area, describes what changes will occur and identifies how places will be shaped in the future.

The Core Strategy is the main document in Great Yarmouth Borough Council's new style Local Plan. It establishes the spatial vision and objectives for how the borough (outside of the Broads Authority Executive Area) will develop and grow in the future. It also sets out a series of strategic policies and site allocations, called 'Core Policies' and 'Key Sites', which provide the strategic context for future Local Plan Documents, Supplementary Planning Documents and Neighbourhood Development Plans.

The Core Strategy forms part of the official development plan for the area, the starting point for decisions on planning applications. It will also act as a framework for a range of key service providers and stakeholders, whose input and delivery of services and infrastructure will be essential to the successful implementation of the strategy.

Document

• Adopted Local Plan Core Strategy (December 2015) (PDF) [16MB]