Supplementary Planning Documents for Broadland
Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) give more detail about how particular Local Plan policies should be interpreted, or applied in practice, and provide further information to guide decisions on planning applications. SPDs are supplementary to the policies in the Local Plan and must be consistent with them. SPDs cannot create new policies. Before an SPD is formally adopted it must be subject to public consultation as set out in our Statement of Community Involvement. We have a number of adopted Supplementary Planning Documents which you can view using the links below.
Recreational Provision in Residential Development SPD (2016)
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance on how the requirement set out in DMDPD Policies EN1: Biodiversity and Habitats, EN3: Green Infrastructure and RL1: Provision of Formal Recreation Space will be applied in practice. It will enable landowners, developers and applicants to calculate the requirement for making provision for informal open space and recreational space in new developments. This will assist them in assessing development capacity and the value of land and making planning applications.
Download the Recreational Provision in Residential Development SPD
Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) SPD (2013)
This SPD relates to, and provides guidance for, the application of relevant development plan policies and other planning guidance in the consideration of development proposals. It provides an overview of landscape character across the District as a whole (excluding the Broads executive area) within the national and county context, and provides detailed 'profiles' of the 6 Landscape Character Types and 16 Landscape Character Areas identified by the assessment. The profiles describe the character of each Landscape Character Unit, and set out management strategies, objectives and guidelines for informing environmental land management initiatives and land use planning decisions.
Download the Landscape Character Assessment SPD
Food Hub SPD (2014)
Alongside South Norfolk District Council we have prepared a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) which sets out the main considerations that will apply to any proposal for a food and agricultural sector hub in the Broadland District Council and South Norfolk Council local planning authority areas. The Food Hub SPD was adopted in July 2014.
A new Greater Norwich Food Cluster was announced in March 2015. This is one of three new Food Enterprise Zones in Norfolk and Suffolk which will be vital economic hubs, boosting collaboration, brining better connectivity to the supply chain and encouraging links with skills and agri-tech research.
Blue Boar Lane Development Brief SPD (2007)
The purpose of this document was to facilitate a comprehensive approach to the development of land allocated for residential development (and a further Strategic Reserve) adjacent to Blue Boar Lane, Sprowston. This document was supplementary to the Broadland District Local Plan (2006). The area is now mostly developed and covered by the Growth Triangle AAP (2016)
Download Blue Boar Lane Development Brief SPD
Parking Guidelines for New Development in Norfolk (2022)
The parking standards have been prepared by Norfolk County Council, the purpose of this document is to provide a consistent set of parking guidelines for applications within new developments throughout Norfolk. This document supersedes previous Parking Standards SPD (2007) prepared for Broadland supporting the Broadland Local PLan Replacement (2006) policies. If you wish to see this document please contact a member of the Place Shaping Team noted below.
Download the Norfolk County Council Parking Standards SPD
Advice notes and reference documents
Place Shaping Guide (2012) - This guide is intended to help developers, officers and communities in their role as place shapers of new sites. It provides advice on how new development can be undertaken in a sustainable, well-designed and cost effective way that contributes to the economic, environmental and social health of Broadland's community.
An advice note has been produced by South Norfolk and Broadland Councils to help guide developers on the requirements that allow the Council to provide refuse collection and street care services. The advice note has not been prepared as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) and does not carry the weight of an SPD in the decision making process. Nonetheless, the guidance contained in the advice note will be a material consideration that will be referred to in determination of relevant planning applications. Read the advice note on planning for waste and recycling collections and street care in new developments (PDF 621KB).
The Broadland Design Guide was produced in 1997, as Supplementary Planning Guidance. The Guide is intended to encourage applicants for planning permission to consider the things that make Broadland special in the preparation of their designs. Although this is an older document, this is still considered a useful reference guide for developers. Read the Broadland Design Guide