Local plan

The Local Plan provides the basis for how North Norfolk will grow and change over the next 15 years. It sets the strategic planning framework for the district and includes policies that determine how land can be used, what can be built, and where.

It details the vision, aims, and objectives for future development in North Norfolk, and sets out policies on climate change, the spatial strategy, healthy communities, housing, the environment, and the economy.

It sets expectations for where new homes, jobs, and infrastructure will be created to meet the area’s housing, employment, and other needs, while protecting and enhancing our unique natural and built environment.

The Plan also addresses key challenges such as:

• providing enough homes of the right type in the right places, including affordable and specialist elderly care homes
• strengthening the economy
• improving the health and well-being of residents
• protecting the natural and built heritage of the district
• managing and adapting to climate change

The government is clear that all local authorities must have an up-to-date plan to guide development, and this plan should guide the infrastructure, homes, and jobs that our residents need.

Plans make sure that the development needed due to population growth and other needs is provided suitably and sustainably.

Having an up-to-date plan means we retain control over:

• where development should and should not be located
• standards that new development should meet, rather than unplanned, speculative development, sometimes without sufficient benefit to local communities.

Our Local Plan gives everyone a clear set of rules and a shared vision. It helps to ensure development happens in the right places, with the right infrastructure, while keeping North Norfolk a special place for future generations.