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Overview

Coventry City Council adopted its Local Plan and accompanying Area Action Plan for the City Centre in December 2017. These documents set out how much and what kind of development is needed up until the year 2031, where it should go, and what policies should be applied in order to help the Council decide whether planning applications are acceptable or not. They are known as Development Plan Documents (DPDs) and are prepared in line with a strict legal process.

The Government currently requires that the policies of the adopted Local Plan should be reviewed every five years to see if they are up to date or whether they need changing or even rewriting to reflect changes to national policy or other matters.

This is what we are now doing. We are carrying out a full review which means that we are reviewing every policy to see what needs changing and why, and whether there are any new policies we should be introducing.

In particular we need to be considering the review of the plan in the light of changes to national government planning policy, and the Council’s priorities including the One Coventry Plan and the emerging Climate Change strategy.

Local Plans need to plan at least 15 years ahead, so we are now looking to the year 2041 in terms of what we need.

The adopted Local Plan (and therefore the area subject to review) covers the entire administrative area of Coventry City Council, as shown on the blue line on the map below. The grey area is that covered by the city centre Area Action Plan.

A map showing Coventry and its borders

Key stages of the Local Plan Review

This first round of engagement called Regulation 18 (issues and options) took place between Tuesday 18 July and Friday 29 September 2023.

This consultation was on our ideas (the Issues and Options) for the updated Local Plan. Respondents were invited to make comments on a range of proposed changes.

View the consultation documents [https://coventrycitycouncil.inconsult.uk/CLPRIO/consultationHome].

The next stage of the local plan review will be the Regulation 19 consultation. Papers have been considered by Cabinet and will now proceed to Council on 14 January 2025.

The timetable for the local plan review is contained in our Local Development Scheme [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/planning-policy/coventry-local-plan-2011-2031/7] (LDS).

Background papers and Evidence Base

This is the evidence base, together with explanatory background papers which have informed the review of the Local Plan.

All other information relating to the Issues and Options consultation including topic papers [http://coventrycitycouncil.inconsult.uk/system/home].

Have your say on the Local Plan Review

We will be launching the Regulation 19 consultation on Monday 20 January for six weeks. We will update this page as soon as this goes live.

Local Plan Review consultation

We consulted on the first stage of the Local Plan Review in summer 2023. This stage was called Issues and Options (Regulation 18) and was about determining the scope of the review and which of the adopted Local Plan policies needed updating. View the consultation documents [https://coventrycitycouncil.inconsult.uk/system/home].

We will be consulting again shortly in line with our Local Development Scheme [https://www.coventry.gov.uk/planning-policy/coventry-local-plan-2011-2031/7] timetable, when we will update this page with information on how to respond.

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