Planning guidance and supplementary planning documents

The documents include:

• village design statements
• the adopted shopfront design document - (used in planning decisions, and helps achieve high standards of design including materials, security and signage)
• the landscape character assessment and biodiversity appraisal

Following Cabinet on 18 March 2026, the Revocation Statement sets out the Supplementary Planning Documents which have been revoked as they are considered to either be out of date and no longer consistent with government legislation, policy or guidance or the relevant site has already been developed, and no longer supplement the implementation of adopted policies in the Local Plan.

You can see the Supplementary Planning Documents Revocation Statement.

For national policy and guidance you should read the National Planning Policy Framework.