About the Local Plan

Local Plans are a legal requirement.

If we don't produce a Local Plan, we will have limited control over the development that is carried out in South Tyneside.

This may result in unsustainable, unplanned and piecemeal developments across the borough, which do not have the necessary infrastructure in place to support them.

Without an up-to-date plan, the government may decide to intervene and take over the writing of the Local Plan.

South Tyneside's existing plan

The South Tyneside Local Development Framework (LDF) is the current Development Plan document for the borough.

However, the LDF is out of date, and does not reflect the government's National Planning Policy Framework.

A new Local Plan is needed to replace the LDF.

National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)

A revised NPPF was re-published on 19 December 2023.

However, because we had already reached the Regulation 19 stage, the new NPPF tells us that we should use the version of the NPPF that was published in September 2023. 

The Local Plan has therefore been prepared in line with the NPPF that was published in September 2023.