Local development frameworks, community strategies and area agreements - Transport Policy and Planning in Great Britain - page 312

The portfolio is known as the Local Development Framework (LDF) and includes
several different types of plan together with documents concerned with the
management of the planning process (Figure 19.1).
The plans are collectively referred to as 'local development documents'. They are
subdivided into

• development plan documents (which form part of the statutory development plan),
and
• supplementary planning documents (such as design briefs for individual sites) which
are advisory in nature.

(Details of the development plan documents are given in the next section.)
The other documents which are obligatory comprise

• a local development scheme (a timetable for the preparation of plans)
• a statement of community involvement
• an annual monitoring report.

THE DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Regional Spatial
Strategy

Development Plan Documents

Site Specific
Allocations

Adopted Proposals
Map

Core Strategy

Area Action
Plans

Other Develo pment
Plan Documents

Supplementary Planning
Documents

Local Development Documents

Local Development
Scheme

Statement of Community
Involvement

Annual Monitoring
Report

= Obligatory elements

Figure 19.1 The local development framework