Arun Local Plan Update
Arun Local Plan update
The adopted Arun Local Plan 2018 is now more than 5 years old. We are therefore updating the Local Plan to ensure that future development needs are met sustainably and to reflect the changing vision for the area, along with various legislative changes.
On 19 July 2023 Full Council agreed to resume this work following a pause in 2021 and 2022. An Issues and Options (Regulation 18) 'Direction of Travel Document' was published for consultation between March and May 2024. The document (linked below) identified the issues and challenges facing the district and the options that could help to address them. It should be noted that it did not identify any specific uses of land, potential development sites or draft policies as this will be done through a later stage of the Local Plan process. The responses received during the consultation were reported to Planning Policy Committee in September 2024.
- Consultation DoT document[pdf] 3MB
an accessible HTML version is available: Direction of Travel Document [HTML] - FAQs Reg.18 DoT [pdf] 273KB
- DoT PPC Background Paper 1 - Consultation Summary Table [pdf] 3MB
Summer / Autumn 2025 update
Work is continuing to prepare some key evidence documents that will provide the 'building blocks' upon which the new Local Plan will be prepared. This includes a strategic flood risk assessment; a landscape and gap assessment; a settlement hierarchy study; a biodiversity study; and a further 'call for sites'.
It is expected that the work programme for the Arun Local Plan will be reviewed and updated in early 2026 once the government has published details and legislation relating to the new system for the preparation of Local Plans. At that time, there is also likely to be more certainty in relation to local government reorganisation and devolution which will have implications for planning at the local and strategic scale.