Regulation 19 consultation

Proposed submission draft of the Croydon local plan 2019 to 2040

The Regulation 19 Consultation is now closed.
 

In accordance Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 representations are invited on the proposed submission draft of the Croydon Local Plan 2019 to 2040; on whether it is legally compliant and meets the tests of ‘soundness’ as set out in the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), paragraph 35.

You are invited to submit your representations over a 6-week period
The consultation is now closed.

Have your say by completing our online form with your comments

Regulation 19 consultation documents to download

View an interactive version of our Proposed submission policies map

Revised local plan (accessible version)

This version of the revised Local Plan has been produced for ease of reference with deleted text removed and inserted text indicated in red.  

For further information, read how the supporting evidence has been used to inform the local plan

View supporting evidence from previous consultations. This evidence has been to create our planning policies and other Local Development Framework documents.

About the review

Watch the video below for an overview of the local plan and the Regulation 19 consultation process.
 


Representations should reflect on the legal compliance and soundness of the revised local plan, referring to specific policy and paragraph numbers. 

Find out more about the plan making process, legal compliance and tests of soundness: 

Legal compliance


The revised Local plan has been prepared in accordance with legal and procedural requirements. The plan should have been:

We should also have worked collaboratively with neighbouring authorities and prescribed bodies on strategic and cross boundary matters, known as the duty to cooperate.

Soundness

Local Plans are considered to be sound if they have been:

Positively prepared

Provides a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet our objectively assessed needs and is informed by agreements with other authorities, so that unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development.

Justified

An appropriate strategy, taking into account the reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence; 

Effective

Deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; and 

Consistent with national policy

Enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies in this framework and other statements of national planning policy, where relevant.

How to have your say on the Regulation 19 consultation