Supplementary Planning Documents

Where prepared, Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) should be included in the Local Development Framework and will form part of the planning framework for the area.  SPDs may cover a range of issues, both thematic and site specific, which may expand policy or provide further detail to policies in a development plan document.  They must not however, be used to allocate land.

They will not be subject to independent examination and will not form part of the statutory development plan.  However, they should be subjected to rigorous procedures of community involvement.

As part of their preparation process SPDs must undergo a Sustainability Appraisal, this may already have been met by the SA for the Development Plan Document to which the SPD conforms.  However, where the supplementary document is developing the policy further or in greater detail, it will be necessary to undertake sustainability appraisal of those matters.