Supplementary Planning Guidance

Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) provides greater detail in relation to particular policies or proposals contained in Development Plan Documents (DPD), to ensure they are properly understood and applied effectively. Although SPG documents do not have the same status as adopted DPDs, it is likely to be a material consideration in determining planning applications.

An SPG can take the form of:

• master plans
  
• design guides
  
• area development briefs
  
• guidance on a particular topic
  

The following provides a list of current adopted SPG documents:

• Travel Plans: adopted April 2003. The scales of charges was updated and approved in January 2014
  
• Street Scapes: adopted December 2005
  
• Shoreline Character Areas: adopted June 2004
• Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems: adopted June 2002
  
• A Design Code: adopted August 2001
  
• Landscape and Natural Environment Design Code: adopted August 2001
• Shopfronts and Shop Signs: adopted August 1998

Whilst these adopted SPG documents remain current, it is anticipated they will gradually be replaced, where necessary, by SPD, under the requirements for such documents set out in the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and subsequent amended legislation.