12/03/21
The Draft Local Development Plan Review and Draft Delivery Agreement will be presented to both Cabinet and Full Council on Thursday March 18th, to get the necessary approval to submit the documents to Welsh Government.
Following full council approval in November the consultation took place on both documents between January 7th2020 and February 4th2021. A wide range of responses were received from members of the public, community councils, property builders, housing associations, and lobbyists
The report supports the proposal to undertake a full replacement for Cardiff's LDP, with the public consultation starting in May.
All relevant information has been assessed and fed into the draft documentation, and any comments received on the plan itself will be fed into future consultations that are planned to deliver a replacement LDP for the city from 2021 up until 2036.
An LDP responds to the current demographic, issues and needs we face by setting out a strategy, proposals and policies on how the city will change in the future. If the council doesn't have an LDP, there is limited control over the type and geographical area where new developments are built, which would ultimately result in unplanned, un-strategic, and unsustainable development.
The current plan has so far seen the building of a wide range and choice of new homes and jobs together with securing new supporting infrastructure via S106 agreements. The annual monitoring reporting process shows the plan is meeting the vast majority of its targets. It provides a policy context to determine approximately 2,500 planning applications each year.
Cllr Caro Wild, Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Transport, said:
"The city's current LDP had to respond an extremely limited local housing supply which meant it needed to bring forward a high number of new homes to meet our needs. Without this housebuilding, and associated affordable and social housing, our housing crisis would be far worse, with even more people unable to afford to buy or rent a home.
"As these homes are now being built, we expect our new LDP to have a different starting point, with a stronger housing supply in place at the outset. But it will have torespond to new challenges that we face, such as tackling the climate emergency, poor air quality, maximising the wellbeing of future generations and responding to the issues raised by the ongoing pandemic.
"We intend on having an extensive open and honest conversation with residents about the future of our city, in particular the choices that must be balanced in terms of the social, economic, environmental and cultural issues which will shape the plan. We are especially keen to listen to young people and people who don't usually take part in consultations. "
The current LDP will remain in place until the replacement LDP has been adopted, which will take three and half years to complete, and will include various stages of consultation and engagement with the public and stakeholders.
This includes:
Once this public consultation is complete and the documents are final, a process then follows before the LDP can be adopted. The timeline is as follows:
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