Authority Monitoring Report 2020 to 2021
4. Local Development Scheme
The Council adopted the most recent Local Development Scheme (LDS) on 15 December 2020.
The LDS sets out the Council’s work programme for the main planning policy documents we aim to prepare over the next three years. In this monitoring year the Council has started work on the Local Plan for Buckinghamshire.
4.1 Development plans adopted
The Council adopted the Vale of Aylesbury Plan (VALP) 2013-2033 on 15 September 2021.
In accordance with the regulations, the following documents were made available:
4.2 Statement of Community Involvement
The Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is a document that we must produce and keep up to date to ensure effective community involvement at all stages in the planning process.
As a new Council, Buckinghamshire needed to produce a single SCI for the whole Council area to replace the SCIs from the legacy authorities.
The Council consulted on a draft SCI from 16 February to 22 March 2021. There were more than 700 responses to this and we looked carefully at all the feedback. The Statement of Consultation sets out how we considered all the feedback and how we changed the SCI to respond to this.
The final SCI was adopted on 7 December 2021.