Local Plan

Review of our Local Plan

Here you'll find our consultations for this review of our Local Plan, which was last adopted in 2020 and forms part of the Development Plan - New Forest District Council.

Setting a vision for the future of the area, the Local Plan also sets a strategy for how, when and where needs of the community will be met, including housing needs, and provides supporting policies.

In the New Forest, the National Park Authority is responsible for planning decisions within the National Park, and New Forest District Council is responsible for planning decisions in all areas of the district that fall outside the National Park boundary.

Once adopted the Local Plan provides the basis upon which future development proposals are assessed against.

Published projects

Additional Call For Sites

19 participants

Additional Call for Sites – Land for future development, open space and nature recovery. The Council has opened a Call for Sites for consideration as part of the full review of the adopted Local Plan for New Forest District outside the National Park.

Spatial Options and Policy Direction - Regulation 18

733 participants

This stage of the Local Plan sets out a preferred policy direction on what you have told us the big issues are - delivering genuinely affordable homes, tackling climate change, improving health and wellbeing, improved infrastructure, climate resilience, and the protection of t...

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Further Call for sites

20 participants

Further Call for Sites – Land for future development, open space and nature recovery. The Council has opened a Call for Sites for consideration as part of the full review of the adopted Local Plan for New Forest District outside the National Park.

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Issues and Scope Consultation

79 participants

The Issues and Scope Consultation is the first stage in reviewing the local plan. The local plan is an important document which sets out detailed planning policies and proposals for New Forest District (outside the National Park) for the coming years.

Call for sites

122 participants

Call for Sites – Land for future development, open space and nature recovery. The Council has opened a Call for Sites for consideration as part of the full review of the adopted Local Plan for New Forest District outside the National Park.