Strategic & Local Policy Context

2.4 Planning policy, advice and guidance cascades down from national to local government levels providing increasingly detailed interpretation. These include:

  • Ministerial Statements
  • Planning Policy Guidance notes (PPGs) now being replaced by Planning Policy Statements (PPSs)
  • Government Circulars
  • the Regional Spatial Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber (RSS), to be replaced in 2008 by the Yorkshire and Humber Plan (Revised RSS)
  • Development Plans including the RCUDP and the emerging Calderdale Local Development Framework
  • This SPD supplements the RCUDP

2.5 This document is primarily a planning tool to assist those who need to make decisions about the future development of Central Elland, and to assist in its regeneration. It is important therefore to recognise that the specific study area lies within a wider planning context embracing not only the Borough of Calderdale but also the Regional Spatial Strategy for Yorkshire and the Humber (“the RSS”) and national planning guidance.

2.6 This broader planning context is established in the RCUDP, which is the primary planning framework for Central Elland. As the SPD forms planning guidance that is complementary to the RCUDP, this document will only consider the relationship between the SPD and the RCUDP.


The Replacement Calderdale Unitary Development Plan (RCUDP)


2.7 The RCUDP is the statutory plan that sets out the land-use planning framework for consistent decision-making within Calderdale. The Council formally adopted the RCUDP in August 2006, after which its policies were saved for three years. During these three years, parts of the RCUDP may be superseded by new documents within the Local Development Framework as, during this time, the two systems will run in parallel.
Appendix 2 sets out a number of RCUDP policies material to Central Elland.


Local Development Framework (LDF)

2.8 The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 requires the eventual replacement of the Council's Unitary Development Plan with a new Local Development Framework (LDF). The LDF will comprise a number of Local Development Documents (LDDs). The LDF, together with the RSS (to be replaced by the Revised RSS), will provide the essential framework for decisions on land-use and related matters (including the basis for decision-making on planning applications) in Calderdale.