About the Local Plan
Why South Tyneside needs a Local Plan
Local Plans are a legal requirement.
If we don't produce a Local Plan, we will have limited control over the development that is carried out in South Tyneside.
This may result in unsustainable, unplanned and piecemeal developments across the borough, which do not have the necessary infrastructure in place to support them.
South Tyneside's existing plan
The South Tyneside Local Development Framework (LDF) is the current Development Plan document for the borough.
However, the LDF is out of date, and does not reflect the government's
A new Local Plan is needed to replace the LDF.
National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF)
A revised NPPF was published in December 2024.
However, because we had already reached the Regulation 19 stage, the new NPPF allows us to progress the Local Plan under the previous version of the NPPF. These are known as transitional arrangements.
The Local Plan has therefore been prepared in line with the NPPF that was published in September 2023.