The LDF Process
The purpose of the Gypsy and Traveller document is to identify new sites for Gypsy and Traveller and Travelling Showpeople accommodation in the District. In addition the document will include planning policies against which Gypsy and Traveller associated development will be determined.To create a Development Plan Document (DPD) such as the one in question, a local authority has to go through a statutory process to ensure that the plan is sustainable, based on community input and involvement, and creates a strategy for implementation.
The diagram below shows the process of developing a Gypsy and Traveller DPD from inception to formal adoption.
| STAGE IN DPD PROCESS | |
| WE ARE HERE - Period of consultation, following short listing of sites by Task Force and Overview and Scrutiny Committee. | Early 2010 |
| Preparation of the Draft Submission Development Plan Document. | May - July 2010 |
| Task Force consideration of the Draft Submission Development Plan Document. | August 2010 |
| Sustainable Communities Overview and Scrutiny Committee consideration of the Draft Submission Development Plan Document. | End August 2010 |
| Executive & Council approval of the Draft Submission Development Plan Document. | September 2010 |
| A statutory period of six weeks of public consultation will take place offering members of the public an opportunity to comment on the Draft Submission Development Plan Document. | October – November 2010
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| The Council submit the Draft Submission DPD to the Secretary of State. | February 2011 |
| The Gypsy and Traveller DPD will be subject to an Examination in Public in front of an independent Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. | Spring 2011* |
| The Planning Inspector publishes the binding report making final recommendations. | Summer 2011* |
| Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document Formally Adopted | Autumn 2011* |
| * Subject to the Planning Inspectorate’s timescales. | |