Planning Policy

Carlisle City Council as the Local Planning Authority has a statutory responsibility for the preparation of planning policy documents  which are used to guide development across the District.

The Carlisle District Local Plan 2001-2016 (adopted 2008) is the current plan used to guide decisions on planning applications together with national Planning Policy Statements (PPS’s).  In March 2012 the Government introduced the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). This new guidance marked a move away from the previous, multi-document Local Development Framework planning system that was introduced in 2004. The NPPF resurrected the previous Local Plan system whereby strategic planning policies, general development management policies and site allocations were all contained within one single development plan document, The Local Plan.

Work that Carlisle Council has carried out on production of the previous Local Development Framework planning system, including the Key Issues and Issues and Options consultations on the Core Strategy, will be used in the production of relevant parts of the new Local Plan.  

A number of additional documents are associated with the new Local Plan. These include:

• Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD’s) which expand on particular policy areas to providee additional guidance.
• the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) that outlines how we involve  stakeholders and communities in the planning process

• a Local Development Scheme (LDS) that sets out a timetable for production of the Local Plan

• an Annual Monitoring report (AMR) setting out progress in terms of producing documents and in implementing policies.

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