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SDNPA Local Plan Review

By Katherine Horton Hawkley Parish

Tuesday, 11 March 2025

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SDNPA have requested the following information be circulated

The Local Plan Review will decide how and where development takes place in the National Park, as well as addressing important issues such as nature recovery, climate change, affordable housing and helping local communities thrive.

The consultation runs until midnight on Monday, 17 March.

Claire Tester, Planning Policy Manager for the National Park Authority, said: “We’ve had a really good response to the consultation and I’d like to thank everyone who has taken the time to give their feedback. “This is the main opportunity for people to help shape the final Plan, so it’s really important that if you care about the future of the National Park that you take part in the consultation. “Probably the easiest way to submit comments is through the online platform, so we encourage everyone, both inside and outside the National Park, to have their say if they can.”

The National Park Authority proposes to keep much of the existing Local Plan, including the emphasis on landscape-led, which means that the nationally-designated landscape is considered in every planning decision. The Local Plan will continue to prioritise the provision of clean air, water, dark skies and food and a medium level of growth spread across the towns and villages of the UK’s youngest National Park.

The Local Plan Review document contains:

• 55 existing policies that have been updated, as well as eight new, thematic policies. Changes include strengthening climate, nature and green infrastructure policies, greater protection for water resources, and more policies around viticulture and regenerative tourism given their importance for the South Downs economy.

• 28 existing Local Plan site allocations that have not yet been implemented and will be carried over into the Local Plan Review, some with changes to wording or site areas.

• 48 new proposed site allocations across Hampshire, West Sussex and East Sussex.

• Settlement maps showing existing Local Plan and Neighbourhood Plan allocations, alongside the proposed new ones. Feedback from the public will help shape the next version of the Local Plan, which will be published in 2026 ahead of its submission for examination by an independent Inspector. Once the new Local Plan is adopted in 2027, it will be used to help decide all planning applications in the National Park.

Responses to the consultation can be made in the following ways:

• Online: Using the consultation platform to view and give feedback on the draft revised Local Plan at https://sdnpalocalplanreview.commonplace.is/

• Email: [email protected]

• In writing: Planning Policy Team, South Downs Centre, North Street, Midhurst, West Sussex, GU29 9DH

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Katherine Horton

  • 07866 443350

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