Part A Spatial Strategy - Draft Local Plan for Buckinghamshire (Reg 18)
This draft Local Plan for Buckinghamshire considers the current and future development needs of the county, setting out requirements for the delivery of new homes, jobs and infrastructure. We must plan to respond to challenges such as climate change, increasing population and protecting areas of sensitive landscape such as the Chilterns. We have been working and will continue to work with stakeholders to ensure necessary infrastructure to support new development is in the right place and delivered at the right time, ensuring residents and employees in Buckinghamshire day-to-day needs are met. This plan is focussed on finding solutions to these challenges.
Previous engagement has taken place with an 'attitudes survey' and 'draft vision and objectives' consultations. Taking into account your feedback, the vision and objectives have now been finalised and underpin this next stage of the draft Local Plan and published in a Consultation Statement.
This draft Local Plan sets out how we are developing the spatial strategy for Buckinghamshire, which includes different approaches for where future housing and employment could be located. The evidence to underpin this is underway including a Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment, New and Expanded Settlement Study and Green Belt Assessment. Once these studies have been completed this will inform site allocations for the plan. No final decisions have been taken on the location of development at this stage. The plans and diagrams in this consultation document are for illustrative purposes. Proposed housing numbers are a snapshot of where we have got to developing the plan so far, this will change once the technical studies have been completed. The indicative numbers show the direction of travel.
How to Have Your Say
The consultation on this document will start on 17 September and conclude on 29 October 2025 at 23.59 pm. We will review all the comments we receive and consider these to help us shape the final publication version of the Local Plan for Buckinghamshire, before it is submitted for an independent examination.
You can share your views on the draft plan in the following ways:
- complete the comment boxes throughout this document
- complete, and return, a printed version of the survey available at buckinghamshire.gov.uk/draft-local-plan
- email us at planningpolicyteam.bc@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
- write to us at Draft Local Plan Consultation, Planning Policy, Buckinghamshire Council, Walton Street, Aylesbury, HP20 1UA
