PLANNING POLICY GUIDANCE NOTE 12: DEVELOPMENT PLANS
This guidance note is a revision of PPG12 published in February 1992. It has been refocused to provide a more strategic review of the role and importance of development plans in the UK planning system. It outlines key general issues on plan content and procedures. It re-emphasises the Government's commitment to a plan-led planning system. It emphasises the need to prepare and update plans more quickly and efficiently than before. It calls for clear, concise, relevant, easily understood plans without unnecessary detail. It outlines the new procedures introduced for preparing local plans and urban development plans (UDPs). It establishes some key procedural issues in preparing, amending, and replacing development plans. It advises on the content and level of detail in plans, and identifies source of best practice on various plan preparation issues. It emphasises the importance of integrating sustainable development, transport, and land-use policies in development plans. It discusses development plans in relation to local transport plans (LTPs), and lists LTP issues with possible land-use implications. It states that a specific transport proposal, directly involving land use or development, should appear as a policy or proposal in the appropriate development plan. Appropriate transport routes should be protected (A)
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Corporate Authors:
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
ELAND HOUSE, BRESSENDEN PLACE
LONDON, United Kingdom SW1E 5DU - Publication Date: 1999
Language
- English
Media Info
- Features: References;
- Pagination: 60 p.
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Serial:
- PPG 12
- Publisher: DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Economic efficiency; Federal government; Land use; Local government agencies; Methodology; Planning; Policy; Sustainable development; Transportation; Urban areas
- Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Guidance
- Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
- ITRD Terms: 5911: Efficiency; 183: Government (national); 9104: Guidance; 356: Land use; 192: Local authority; 9102: Method; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 2427: Sustainability; 1155: Transport; 8119: United Kingdom; 313: Urban area
- Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 00795202
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
- ISBN: 1-85112-349-0
- Files: ITRD
- Created Date: Jul 7 2000 12:00AM