Development Plan
The Development Plan is the collection of
national and local planning documents which are together used to
plan for the future of the Borough and to determine planning
applications.
National planning documents comprise Planning
Policy Guidance Notes (PPGs), Planning Policy Statements (PPSs),
Circulars and best practice guidance documents all of which are
available to view and download on the Communities and Local Government
(CLG) website.
Until July 2010, the Development Plan also
comprised the East of England Plan, but this has been revoked by
the coalition Government as part of the “localism” agenda to allow
more decision making at the local level.
Local planning documents comprise the saved
policies of the Hertfordshire Structure Plan, the saved policies of
the Broxbourne Local Plan Second
Review, Supplementary Planning Guidance documents prepared as
part of the Local Plan process and the emerging policies of the
Broxbourne Local Development
Framework.
The relationship between national, regional
and local documents is explained in this diagram:
Other Planning Documents
In addition to the documents that make up the
Development Plan there are also a number of planning documents
which may be regarded as a “material consideration” in the
determination of planning applications and the negotiation of
Section 106 planning contributions. These include Town Centre Strategies and Development Briefs.