Regulation 19 consultation - Proposed Submission Document

Overview

About the Local Plan

The Local Plan sets out a long-term strategy for the Council and its partners to direct investment across the borough. It also makes up part of the Council’s statutory Development Plan and includes policies and guidelines that are used to determine planning applications.

A new Local Plan for Lewisham

The Council’s existing Local Plan is made up of a package of documents. The Lewisham Core Strategy is the main document and was adopted in 2011. It is supported by the Site Allocations, Development Management and Lewisham Town Centre Local plans.

The Council is legally required to review its local plan every five-years. We are therefore reviewing and updating our adopted plans, bringing them together into a single document. The new Local Plan will cover a twenty-year period, looking ahead to 2040.

Title of documents available for inspection

• Lewisham Local Plan: Proposed Submission Document January 2023.
• Proposed Policies Map and Schedule of Proposed Changes to the Adopted Policies Map December 2022.
• Integrated Impact Assessment and Non-technical Summary December 2022.
• Habitats Regulations Assessment December 2022

All documents are available to download below.  Please be aware that due to their file size some of the documents have been split into seperate parts.

Why your views matter

Why are we consulting?

The Local Plan will play a vital role in how we manage new development and coordinate investment.

We have prepared the Local Plan: Proposed Submission Document for public consultation. It has been informed by the previous consultation and engagement exercises we have undertaken for the new plan. This includes public consultations on the Issues and Options document in 2015, the Main Issues and Preferred Approaches Document in 2021, Call for Sites exercises and engagement on evidence base documents.

During this consultation the Local Plan – Proposed Submission Document and its supporting documents will be made available for public inspection to provide any individual, group, or business the opportunity to make a representation.  This consultation will require submissions to specifically focus on the following issues:

• Is the plan legally compliant? - Does the Plan comply with the relevant legislation and regulations in the way it has been prepared, and in its content?
• Does the plan comply with the ‘Duty to Cooperate’? - Has the local planning authority engaged constructively, actively and on an ongoing basis with neighbouring authorities and other prescribed bodies during the preparation of the Plan?
• Is the plan ‘sound’? - Has the Plan been ‘positively prepared’? Is it robustly justified and evidence-led? Will it be effective in what it sets out to achieve? Is it consistent with regional and national planning policy?

Consultation events

Virtual consultation events via Microsoft Teams will be held on: 

• Thursday 16th March 2023 - 6pm to 8pm
• Thursday 23rd March 2023 - 6pm to 8pm

If you wish to attend one of these events please register via: 

https://consultation.lewisham.gov.uk/planning/reg19events

A drop in session will also be held on Saturday 25th March 2023 - 10am to 4pm at Unit 69, East Mall, Lewisham Shopping Centre

Have your say

The consultation is open from 1^st March 2023 to 25^th April 2023.

To have your say please complete the survey that follows, or;

Download and complete the survey form and:

email - localplan@lewisham.gov.uk

or;

Write to us - Strategic Planning, Laurence House, 1 Catford Rd, Catford, London, SE6 4RU

All representations must set out clearly why, and how, it is considered that the Lewisham Local Plan – Proposed Submission Document (in whole or in part) is: legally compliant or non-compliant; compliant or non-compliant with the Duty to Cooperate; and/or, sound or unsound

Please note that all submissions will be required to be made public along with the name of the person making the submission, all other personal information will be kept confidential.  All submissions will then be submitted to the Secretary of State and the Planning Inspectorate along with the Lewisham Local Plan- Proposed Submission Document and its supporting documents after this period of representation

Where can I inspect the Local Plan and its supporting documents

You can inspect physical copies of the documents, the Consultation Statement main report and appendices and the Statement of Representations Procedure as well as other supporting documents at the following locations: 

• London Borough of Lewisham, Laurence House, 1 Catford Road, London, SE6 4RU.
• Catford Library, Catford Centre, 23-24 Winslade Way, London, SE6 4JU.

If you wish to inspect the documents at Laurence House, please make an appointment by emailing localplan@lewisham.gov.uk or calling 02083147400

(Please note that you need to make an appointment by e-mailing LocalPlan@Lewisham.gov.uk if you wish to inspect the Plan and its supporting documents at Laurence House).

You can inspect physical copies of the documents, the Consultation Statement main report excluding the appendices and the Statement of Representations Procedure at the following locations:

• Deptford Lounge Library, 9 Giffin Street, London, SE8 4RJ.
• Grove Park Community Centre, Somertrees Avenue, London, SE12 0BX.
• Forest Hill Community Library, Dartmouth Road, London, SE23 3HZ.
• Downham Library, 7-9 Moorside Road, Bromley, BR1 5EP.
• Lewisham Library, 199-201 Lewisham High Street, London, SE13 6LG.

  Representations must be received by 25^th April 2023.