Local Development Scheme (LDS) News Update
The LDS has been reviewed following the request of the Deputy Prime Minister that local planning authorities produce an updated Local Development Scheme (LDS) by no later than 6 March 2025.
There are no changes to the documents identified in the LDS; the scope of those documents; or the overall timetable for their preparation. There are minor adjustments to the timing of some work, but these do not affect the overall work programme. This replaces the LDS agreed in July 2024.
The LDS is a project management document that sets out the timetable for the production of the Local Plan and other associated documents. It provides an overview of the process of drafting them and identifies key milestones and timescales for their preparation.
For further information please contact local.plans@thanet.gov.uk.
What is the Local Development Scheme?
As part of the Planning and Compulsory Act 2004 (as amended) each Local Planning Authority must prepare a Local Development Scheme (LDS).
The LDS is a project management document for the production of the Local Plan. This LDS for Thanet identifies and describes the “Development Plan Documents (DPDs)” which the District Council intends to produce to make up the Local Plan. It provides an overview of the process of drafting them and identifies key milestones and timescales for their preparation. This LDS covers a three year time period.
Additional information is included in the LDS about Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) the Council also anticipates will be prepared to supplement the Local Plan. This includes indicative timescales for preparing them. Collectively the DPDs and SPDs are known as Local Development Documents (LDDs).
The LDS serves two purposes:
- it provides the starting point for the local community to find out what the Council’s, as the Local Planning Authority, planning policies are for the area, by setting out all the LDDs that already form and supplement the Local Plan; and
- it sets out the programme for the preparation of DPDs over a three-year period including timetables indicating when the various stages in the preparation of any particular DPD will be carried out.
- View the Local Development Scheme as agreed by Cabinet on 20 February 2025 and replaces the LDS published in July 2024.