Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Box 4.5
The system of spatial planning in England (pre-2004/2005)
Government level
Tiers of planning
Legal foundations
Planning instruments
Material content
Scale of maps
Secretary of State
National planning
Town and Country Planning Policy Guidance Notes
Planning Policy Principles
n/a
for the Environment
Planning Act
(PPGs)
(sectoral and procedural)
1947/1990
for the whole of England
Minerals Planning Guidance Notes
Local government
Regional planning
Town and Country Regional Planning Guidance Notes Framework for Structure
Key diagram (not
associations/
Planning Act
(RPGs)
Plans and context for UDPs
to scale, usually
Standing
1947/1990
and local plans for twenty
A4 format)
Conference/
year period or longer for each
Regional Chamber
of the eight English regions
Greater London
Planning for Greater Town and Country
Spatial Development Strategy for
Framework for UDPs and
Key diagram
Authority
London area
Planning Act
London
other strategies in London
1947/1990
County Councils
Structure Plan
Mandatory, authority-wide
Key diagram, often
broad framework for fifteen
with inset map (not
Minerals Plan
years or longer
to scale, usually
Waste Plan
A4 or A3 format)
District Council
Development
Town and Country
Local Plan
Mandatory authority-wide plan
Site-specific on
planning/local land
Planning Act
setting out detailed policies
OS map
use planning
1947/1990
and proposals to guide
development control, ten-year
horizon
Metropolitan District
Unitary Development Plan
Mandatory authority-wide
Key diagram for
Council/Unitary
framework of general policies
whole authority
Authority
and detailed policies and and site-specific
proposals to guide development detailed proposals
control, ten-year horizon
on OS map
Source: based on Cullingworth and Nadin (2002); CEC (2000b).
