Alterations to the Local Plan

Epping Forest District Council’s existing comprehensive District-wide 1998 Local Plan was adopted in 1998; and Alterations to this Plan have now been prepared. These Alterations update the policies in the Plan that require modification due to changes in policy (at all levels) or because the original Local Plan policy simply no longer applies or is no longer necessary.

The Alterations were adopted on 10th July 2006.  The Alterations will be available to purchase and download in final form shortly, but whilst this final document is being prepared an interim document has been prepared.  This includes the extant parts of the Redeposit, the Pre-Inquiry Changes supported by the Inspector, and the additional amendments made by the Inspector in his Report, and can be downloaded below.  This Interim document should be used with the 1998 Adopted Local Plan where appropriate.

All but three of the Local Plan Alterations 2006 policies, due to expire in July 2009, have now been saved by GO East - read more below:

• EFDC applied to save all but three of the Alterations policies, listed below:                                                                                                                                                      
• GB14A has been superseded by changes in the national General Permitted Development Order and is now unenforceable
• H1A has been superseded by housing targets within the East of England Plan
• ST3 has been superseded by the requirements of the application validation checklist

• Read the letter from GO East regarding the EFDC Adopted Local Plan Alterations (2006) policies which have been saved here

Click here for the Local Plan Alterations policy document (August 2006) - NB Policies GB14A, H1A and ST3 are now deleted.
(NB file size is 12 MB)

Click here to view the COMBINED LOCAL PLAN (1998) and ALTERATIONS (2006) Policy Document - NB Policies GB14A, H1A and ST3 are now deleted.

N.B. This document contains the POLICY TEXT ONLY - for accompanying text / maps / tables / graphs etc, please see the original documents, as above and on the 'Local Development Plan' page

Click here for the Local Plan Inquiry Inspector's Report (June 2006)

Click here for the Pre-Inquiry Changes (December 2005)

Click here for the Redeposit Documents and Responses (July 2005)

Click here for the First Deposit Documents and Responses (June 2004)

Click here for the Key Issues Report (December 2003)

Two key policy areas that have not been addressed in these Alterations are those of the Green Belt boundaries and the distribution of housing land. These will be addressed in the future when we publish our first Local Development Framework Documents.

What happens next?

The Council has commenced work on the new Local Plan.

Last updated - 27th January 2012