These web pages provide information on the local spatial planning that the Council is required to undertake to ensure the delivery of sustainable development across the South Hams. This planning work has produced the current adopted South Hams Local Plan, its more recent draft review and the ongoing work to replace it with a Local Development Framework (LDF) - the Government's new planning system.
These pages include those on:
- the adopted Local Plan,
- the Draft Local Plan Review and
- the first Local Development Framework documents.
Together they provide guidance on what kind of development and use of land will or will not be permitted in the South Hams. As new LDF documents are adopted they will replace the relevant sections of the adopted Local Plan.
The Local Plan and Local Development Framework are the principal tools used to guide and inform the day to day decisions made in exercising the Council's development control function, for example - whether or not planning permission should be granted. In order to ensure that decisions are rational and consistent, they must be considered against the Local Plan, adopted LDF documents and other material factors.
