Local Development Scheme

The Local Development Scheme (pdf, 349 KB) (LDS) has two key purposes:

• It provides a starting point for the local community to find out what the Council's planning policies are for the borough and sets out the current documents which form the Local Development Plan.
• It sets out the detailed work programme for the preparation of the Local Plan documents over a three year period, including timetables, which tell people when the various stages in the plan preparation will be carried out.

The latest timescales for the production and progress on the documents is as follows:

Local Plan/LDF Document	Timescales
Local Plan	Adopted July 2018 and 3 March 2020 in relation to two legal challenges.
Twickenham Area Action Plan	Adopted July 2013.
Joint West London Waste Plan DPD	Adopted July 2015. A review of the plan has now commenced.
New Local Plan	Informal consultation on vision, objectives, spatial strategy, and issues, alongside consultation on Sustainability Appraisal (SA) Scoping Report: spring 2020 Call for Sites consultation: spring 2020 Pre-publication consultation on draft plan and consultation on the draft Plan and SA (Regulation 18) winter 2021/22 Publication consultation on the Council's final version of the Plan and final SA report (Regulation 19): summer 2023 Submission of the Council's final version of the Plan to the Planning Inspectorate: January 2024 Independent Examination in Public: January 2024 to spring/summer 2025 Inspector’s Report: spring/summer 2025 Adoption of the Local Plan: summer 2025
Future Local Plan	Subject to confirmation of timescales for the implementation of the new plan-making system, work on a future Local Plan is anticipated to commence in 2026.
Community Infrastructure Levy Charging Schedule (this is not a DPD)	Adoption: 1 November 2014

The progress against the Local Development Scheme programme is summarised in the Authority’s Monitoring Reports.