The City Plan Part Two was formally submitted to the Secretary of State for approval on 13 May.
A blueprint to guide new development in the city to 2030, the City Plan aims to provide more genuinely affordable homes for local people, reduce carbon emissions and support economic recovery.
City Plan Part Two will complement the adopted City Plan Part One and help to ensure that the right amount of development takes place in the right places. It will support the council’s planning service to make sure that allocated sites that come forward for new development are managed to secure the higher quality development that is needed in the city.
The full council meeting on 23 April 2020 approved the plan for further consultation and for submission to government.
It is expected that an independent Planning Inspector will shortly be appointed to examine Brighton & Hove’s City Plan Part Two and public hearings could take place in the autumn.
There have been three rounds of consultation on the City Plan Part 2 including the opportunity last year (September to end October) to raise any final objections to the agreed Plan on the grounds of ‘soundness’ before its submission. As a result, we received 272 comments including a number of petitions. These comments have been collated and submitted for the Planning Inspector to consider.
Most of the content of the document has not changed since its approval in April 2020 but a schedule of proposed changes or ‘main modifications’ have been put forward for the Inspector to consider as part of the examination.
The proposed changes are designed to bring the plan up to date as a result of recent government changes to the way the use of land is classified and to address some of the comments made last year.
More information, including supporting documents and background evidence which the council used when preparing the plan.
Some of the policies in City Plan Part 2 include:
