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Previous Work on the Local Development Plan

The Council has been working on the new Local Development Plan since 2005 and during this time a number of draft documents have been produced and consulted on. This page contains details of this previous work, for example, the Core Strategy Issues and Options and Preferred Option drafts.

Before the Localism Act was published, the Council had to write their policies in separate documents, each dealing with different issues. Collectively these documents would have formed the Local Development Framework. The Council's previous work was focussed on the Core Strategy, which would have been the main policy document. The Core Strategy would have contained a vision of how the District should look at the end of the plan period, and a series of objectives and policies for achieving this vision. The previous work on the Core Strategy will now be included in the Local Development Plan.

Please follow the links below to view drafts of the Core Strategy and for further information on previous public consultation events.

  1. Shaping Places and Spaces Conference, June 2005.  
  2. Public Consultation on the Core Strategy Issues and Options Draft , June and July 2006.
  3. Consultation Feedback Workshop in preparation of the Preferred Option draft Core Strategy, January 2007.
  4. Public Consultation on the Core Strategy Preferred Option draft, October and November 2007.
  5. A revised Settlement Strategy was agreed by the Council's Policy Committee in June 2009.  The Preferred Option draft Settlement Strategy was amended in light of comments received during the public consultation on the Preferred Option Draft Core Strategy.  At the Policy Committee meeting, Councillor's agreed that  development in the District should be distributed as follows: 
  •     The Principal Service Centre of Skipton should receive 40% of new development
  •     The Local Service Centre of Glusburn/ Crosshills/ Sutton should receive 17% of new development
  •     The Local Service Centre of Settle/ Giggleswick should receive 15% of new development
  •     The Local Service Centre of High Bentham should receive 13% of new development
  •     The remaining 15% of new development will be distributed amongst the rural settlement.

Sustainability Appraisal of the Core Strategy
The Core Strategy (along with all other Local Development Documents) is subject to a Sustainability Appraisal to ensure that the policies and strategies adopted are sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms.  Please refer to the Sustainability Appraisal page to view Appraisal Documents which have been produced for the Core Strategy. 

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