News on Lewisham Local Plan

A new Local Plan for Lewisham

The Council’s existing Local Plan is made up of a package of documents. The Lewisham Core Strategy is the main document and was adopted in 2011. It is supported by the Site Allocations, Development Management and Lewisham Town Centre Local plans.

The Council is legally required to review its local plan every five-years. We are therefore reviewing and updating our adopted plans, bringing them together into a single document. The new Local Plan will cover a twenty-year period, looking ahead to 2040.

We are inviting comments on the following documents

• Lewisham Local Plan: Proposed Submission Document January 2023.

• Proposed Policies Map and Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Adopted Policies Map December 2022.

• Integrated Impact Assessment and Non-technical Summary December 2022.

• Habitats Regulations Assessment December 2022Why your views matter

All documents listed above are available to download on the Council website

Why are we consulting?

The Local Plan will play a vital role in how we manage new development and coordinate investment.

We have prepared the Local Plan: Proposed Submission Document for public consultation. It has been informed by the previous consultation and engagement exercises we have undertaken for the new plan. This includes public consultations on the Issues and Options document in 2015, the Main Issues and Preferred Approaches Document in 2021, Call for Sites exercises and engagement on evidence base documents.

During this consultation the Local Plan – Proposed Submission Document and its supporting documents will be made available for public inspection to provide any individual, group, or business the opportunity to make a representation. This consultation will require submissions to specifically focus on the following issues:

• Is the plan legally compliant? - Does the Plan comply with the relevant legislation and regulations in the way it has been prepared, and in its content?

• Does the plan comply with the ‘Duty to Cooperate’? - Has the local planning authority engaged constructively, actively and on an ongoing basis with neighbouring authorities and other prescribed bodies during the preparation of the Plan?

• Is the plan ‘sound’? - Has the Plan been ‘positively prepared’? Is it robustly justified and evidence-led? Will it be effective in what it sets out to achieve? Is it consistent with regional and national planning policy?

Have your say

The consultation is open from 1st March 2023 to midnight 25th April 2023.

If you wish to submit a representation or find out more, please visit https://lewishamlocalplanreg19.commonplace.is/

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Email - localplan@lewisham.gov.uk

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Write to us - Strategic Planning, Laurence House, 1 Catford Road, Catford, London, SE6 4RU