Emerging Local Plan

It is important to undertake regular reviews of the local plan as circumstances change and planning policies become out of date. Broadland District and South Norfolk Councils, working together with Norwich City Council and Norfolk County Council adopted the Greater Norwich Local Plan (GNLP) in March 2024. Due to national planning reform and the government’s new method for calculating housing need, a new local plan needs to be prepared. In addition, the government has introduced a new plan-making system, which changes the way local plans are prepared. You can find more information on the new system here: Create or update a local plan using the new system - GOV.UK. The new local plan will plan for the housing and job needs of the area to 2045 and will build on the long-established joint working arrangements for Greater Norwich. You can find out more about the GNLP 2045 on their website.

As well as strategic policies the current 2024 GNLP also allocates land for development. Although the GNLP covers the Greater Norwich area as a whole it still takes into account the unique requirements of the individual partners and recognises that South Norfolk is the most rural of the authorities. To reflect its rural nature a separate South Norfolk Village Clusters Housing Site Allocations document is currently being developed by South Norfolk Council to find suitable sites for housing in its smaller villages.

Alongside the plans themselves, there are several documents we must prepare as part of the Local Plan process. These documents monitor the development of planning policy and the delivery of the Local Plan:

Local Development Scheme

Local planning authorities must set out a timetable for their review in a document called the Local Development Scheme (LDS). The LDS also specifies what documents, when prepared, will comprise the Local Plan for the area.

Read our Local Development Scheme documents.

Authority Monitoring Reports

These documents provide information relating to the performance of policies within each Local Plan document. Read more about the Authority Monitoring Reports for Broadland and South Norfolk.