Local Plan Second Review 2006

This introduction is aimed to give you a broad understanding of the Local Plan and its various stages of development.

The Cheltenham Borough Local Plan is one of the most important documents published by the council. It deals with development, helping to conserve the special environment of Cheltenham and identifying land which will be needed for future development. The policies set out in the plan influence decisions on planning applications and support our proposals for managing traffic in the town. The Local Plan was adopted in June 2006.

• Cheltenham Borough Local Plan Second Review 2006
• Policy renumbering information

The Local Plan and the Joint Core Strategy

Some of the policies in the Local Plan have now been superseded by policies in the Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy, adopted in December 2017, a list of these policies can be found below:

• Policies superseded by the Joint Core Strategy

Earlier development of the Local Plan

We carrried out four statutory rounds of consultation on the plan between 2002 and 2004 which resulted in changes to the plan. A public local inquiry into the Local Plan was held in November 2004 and heard by an independent inspector who produced a report on his findings that can be found on the public inquiry web pages. We considered each of the inspector's recommendations and made further changes to produce the Cheltenham Borough Local Plan Second Review.

On 29 June 2006, we adopted the Cheltenham Borough Local Plan Second Review which replaced the first review of the Local Plan which was adopted in December 1997.

On 27 March 2012, the government published the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). Since this time, due weight should be given to policies in the Cheltenham Local Plan Second Review according to the degree of consistency with the NPPF (the closer the policies in the plan are to the framework, the greater the weight that may be given to them).