Local Plan document library

This examination library includes all relevant documents used in the development of the Local Plan.

This includes the submission documents, supporting evidence base and assessments, and documents from previous stages of the plan-making process.

This page will include future documents that are produced as the examination process progresses.

Submission documents

SUB1: Publication Draft Local Plan (2023-2040)

SUB2: Publication Draft Local Plan Policies Map (2024)

SUB3: Sustainability Appraisal Report (2024)

SUB4: Habitats Regulations Assessment (2023)

SUB5: Duty to Cooperate Statement (2025)

SUB6: Local Development Scheme (2025)

SUB7: Statement of Community Involvement (2022)

SUB8: Regulation 22 Statement of Consultation (2025)

SUB9: Representations received at Regulation 19 (2024)

SUB10: Notice of Submission (2025)

SUB11: Local Plan Intervention Letter from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (2025)

SUB12: Statement of Representations Procedure (2024)

SUB13: Submission Letter (2025)

SUB14: Document Index (2025)

Background evidence documents

Spatial vision and strategic objectives

SPV1: The South Tyneside Vision and Council Strategy (2023)

SPV2: Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan (2020)

SPV3: Integrated Housing Strategy (2019)

SPV4: Economic Recovery Plan (2020)

SPV5: Joint Strategic Needs and Asset Assessment (2016 to 2023)

SPV6: Our South Tyneside report (2023)

SPV7: Living Better Lives - Adult Social Care Strategy (2022 to 2026)

SPV8: Health and Wellbeing Strategy (2022)

SPV9: South Shields Town Centre Masterplan Vision (2023)

SPV10: Connected South Tyneside - South Tyneside's Digital Infrastructure Strategy (2021)

Housing evidence 

HOU1: Fellgate Sustainable Growth Area Supplementary Planning Document: Site Capacity and Opportunities Paper (2024)

HOU2: Site Frameworks for Publication Draft Local Plan 2023 to 2040 (2023)

HOU3: Site Selection Topic Paper (2025 update)

HOU4: Strategic Housing Market Assessment (2023)

HOU5: Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (2024)

HOU6: Density Report (2024)

HOU7: Efficient Use of Land (2024)

HOU8: Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showperson Accommodation Assessment (2023)

HOU9: Houses in Multiple Occupation Topic Paper (2024)

HOU10: Discounted Market Sales Policy Statement (2023)

HOU11: Interim First Homes Policy Statement (2022)

HOU12: Brownfield Land Register (2024)

HOU13: Brownfield Land Register Map (2024)

HOU14: Sunderland City Council and South Tyneside Council: IAMP Impact Study's Housing Topic Paper (2015)

Economic evidence

EMP1: Employment Land Review and Appendices (2023)

EMP2: Employment Land Technical Paper (2024 update)

EMP3: Town, District and Local Centres Studies: Stage 1 (2023)

EMP4: South Tyneside Economic Assessment (2021)

EMP5: Stage 2 Town, District and Local Centres Study - Local Centres and Neighbourhood Hubs Commentary and Recommendations (2023)

EMP6: North East Local Enterprise Partnership Strategic Economic Plan (2022)

EMP7: International Advanced Manufacturing Park (IAMP): Area Action Plan (2017)

Natural environment evidence

NAT1: South Tyneside Green and Blue Infrastructure Strategy (2023)

NAT2: Local Green Space Topic Paper (2023)

NAT3: Phase 1 and National Vegetation Classification Survey for the Durham Coast Special Area of Conservation (2023)

NAT4: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (2022) 

NAT5: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment: Sites Assessment (2022)

NAT6: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Detailed Maps (2022)

NAT7: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Addendum (2023)

NAT8: Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Addendum Data - Sites Assessment (2023)

NAT9: Level 2 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment: Scoping Report (2023)

NAT10: Level 2 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (2024)

NAT11: Sequential Flood Test Report (2024) 

NAT12: South Tyneside Surface Water Management Strategy (2014)

NAT13: Environment Agency: Northumbria River Basin District Management Plan (2015)

NAT14: CIRIA.ORG: The SuDS Manual (2015)

NAT15: GOV.UK: Sustainable Drainage Systems: Non-Statutory Technical Standards (2015)

NAT16: Wildlife Corridors Review (2020)

NAT17: South Tyneside Playing Pitch Strategy & Action Plan (2024) and Assessment Report (2023)

NAT18: Non-Breeding Bird Survey of the South Tyneside, Sunderland and County Durham Coast 2019 / 2020 (2020)

NAT19: South Tyneside and Sunderland Coast Visitor Survey Analysis (2021)

NAT20: South Tyneside Waders Survey (2023) 

NAT21: Coastal Designation Justification (2022)

NAT22: South Tyneside Landscape Character Study (Part I & 2) and Landscape Sensitivity to Wind Power Development (Part 3) (2012)

NAT23: GOV.UK: Seascape Character Assessment for the North East Inshore and Offshore Marine Plan Areas (2018)

NAT24: Open Space Study (2024)

NAT25: South Tyneside Visitor Survey Analysis (2024)

NAT26: The British Standards Institution: British Standard 5837 - Trees in relation to design demolition and construction (2012) 

NAT27: Coastal Mitigation Position Statement (March 2025)

Climate change evidence

CLM1: Climate Change Topic Paper (2024)

CLM2: South Tyneside Carbon Audit (2021)

CLM3: Contaminated Land Strategy (2019)

CLM4: Wind Development Study Update (2025)

CLM5: National Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management Strategy for England (2020)

CLM6: Flood and Coastal Risk Management Strategy (2017-2022)

CLM7: North East Shoreline Management Plan (2007)

CLM8: The Air Quality Annual Status Report (2020) 

CLM9: Local Air Quality Strategy and Action Plan (2023)

CLM10: North East Inshore and North East Offshore Marine Plan Area (2021)

Green belt evidence

GRB1: South Tyneside Green Belt Study (2023)

GRB2: Green Belt: Exceptional Circumstances paper (2024) - Update 

Infrastructure and viability evidence

INV1: Infrastructure Delivery Plan (2025)

INV2: Strategic Road Network Forecast Report (2023)

INV3: Strategic Road Network Model Development Report (2023)

INV4: Viability Report and Appendices 2023

INV5: Traffic Assessment (2023)

INV6: Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (2021 - 2036)

INV7: Large Green Belt Release Accessibility Report (2021)

INV8: Large Greenbelt Release: Aimsun Testing (2021)

INV9: A194 / A184 White Mare Pool Emerging Pressures - White Mare Pool Junction Study (2021)

INV10: South Tyneside Waste Capacity Study (2023)

INV11: Tyne and Wear Joint Local Aggregates Assessment (2021)

INV12: Joint Local Aggregates Assessment (2022)

INV13: Sewage Management: Local Plan Position Statement (March 2025)

INV14: Cross Boundary Traffic Flow Assessment (2024)

Built environment evidence

BEN1: South Tyneside Grade II Listed Buildings at Risk (2015)

BEN2: Heritage Impact Assessments (2024)

BEN3: Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Site Management Plan 2015-2019 4th edition

BEN4: Unesco World Heritage Convention: Frontiers of the Roman Empire

BEN5: Sitelines: Historic Environment Record

BEN6: Locally Significant Heritage Assets

Healthy communities evidence

HEC1: Hot Food Takeaways and Obesity in South Tyneside: Evidence Report (2014)

HEC2: Hot Food Takeaways and Obesity in South Tyneside: Evidence Report (2017)

HEC3: GOV.UK: National Childhood Measurement Programme (2022)

HEC4: South Tyneside Physical Activity Strategy (2019-2022)

HEC5: Pharmaceutical Needs Assessment (2022)

Authorities Monitoring Report

AMR1: Authorities Monitoring Report (2015 to 2023)

AMR2: Authorities Monitoring Report (2023 to 2024)

Previous stages

Regulation 19 Publication Draft Local Plan: Superseded evidence base

PRE1: Duty to Cooperate Statement (2024)

PRE2: Wind Development Study (2022)

PRE3: Green Belt: Exceptional Circumstances paper (2024)

PRE4: Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (2023)

PRE5: Employment Land Technical Paper (2024)

PRE6: South Tyneside Playing Pitch Strategy (2019)

PRE7: South Tyneside Playing Pitch Strategy Assessment Report 2019

PRE8: Infrastructure Delivery Plan (2024)

PRE9: Brownfield Land Register (2023)

PRE10: Brownfield Register Map (2023)

PRE11: Open Space Study (2023)

PRE12: Regulation 18 Consultation Statement

PRE13: Site Selection Topic Paper (2024)

PRE14: Local Development Scheme (2024)

Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan (2022)

PRE15: Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan 2021 to 2039 (published June 2022)

PRE16: Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan Policy Maps (published June 2022)

Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan (2022): Supporting evidence base

PRE17: South Tyneside Site Frameworks (2022)

PRE18: Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal (2022)

PRE19: Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal: Non Technical Summary (2022)

PRE20: Annex 1 Site Options Sustainability Appraisal Matrices (2022)

PRE21: Site Selection Topic Paper (2022)

PRE22: Habitats Regulations Assessment (2022)

PRE23: Local Plan Duty to Co-operate Statement (2022)

PRE24: Statement of Representations Procedure (2022)

PRE25: Local Plan Viability Testing (2021)

PRE26: Strategic Housing Market Assessment (2021)

PRE27: Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (2022)

PRE28: Housing Density Study (2019)

PRE29: Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showperson Accommodation Assessment (2021)

PRE30: Employment Land Technical Paper (2022)

PRE31: Employment Land Review (2019)

PRE32: Stage 1 Green Belt Review Exceptional Circumstances (2022)

PRE33: Stage 2 Green Belt Review Site Assessments (2022)

PRE34: Stage 3 Green Belt Review (2022)

PRE35: Brownfield Land Register (2022)

PRE36: Climate Change Topic Paper (2022)

PRE37: Traffic Assessment (2022)

PRE38: Sequential Flood Test (2022)

PRE39: North East Waste Capacity Study (2012)

PRE40: Playing Pitch Mitigation: Site Search Methodology (2022)

PRE41: Heritage Impact Assessment (2022)

PRE42: Wader Survey - South Tyneside (2020)

PRE43: Infrastructure Delivery Plan (2022)

Regulation 18 Draft Local Plan (2019)

PRE44: Regulation 18 Pre-Publication Draft Local Plan (2019)

PRE45: Regulation 18 Pre-Publication Draft Local Plan Policy Map (2019)

PRE46: Draft Local Plan Interim Sustainability Appraisal (2019)

South Tyneside Strategic Land Review (2018)

PRE47: Strategic Land Review Methodology and Results (2018)

PRE48: Strategic Land Review: Boldons and Cleadon (2018) 

PRE49: Strategic Land Review: Fellgate and Hedworth (2018)

PRE50: Strategic Land Review: Hebburn (2018)

PRE51: Strategic Land Review: Inner South Shields (2018)

PRE52: Strategic Land Review: Jarrow (2018)

PRE53: Strategic Land Review: Outer South Shields (2018)

PRE54: Strategic Land Review: Whitburn (2018)

PRE55: South Tyneside interim HRA and SPD: Report 1 - HRA of growth options (2018)

PRE56: South Tyneside Interim HRA and SPD: Report 2 - Recreation Mitigation Strategy (2018)

South Tyneside issue and option consultations (2013 and 2015)

PRE57: Local Plan Key Issues and Options: Consultation Questionnaire (2013)

PRE58: Local Plan Growth Options Consultation Questionnaire (2015)