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Unitary Development Plan

Message: September 2008

UDP Adoption

The Unitary Development Plan was adopted on the 26th March 2008. It is now the development plan for the whole of the Neath Port Talbot area. It replaces the West Glamorgan Structure Plan, Minerals Local Plan, and the local plans that previously covered the area.

The Notice of Adoption together with statements on the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the Habitats Directive (Appropriate Assessment) were published on the 17th April 2008.

The Notices, the adopted UDP (text and proposals maps), the SEA and Habitat Directive statements and the Development Plan Index are available on this website (see below). They are also available for inspection at libraries within the County Borough, the Neath and Port Talbot Civic Centres and the First Stop Shop in Pontardawe.

The Authority resolved on the 24^th July 2008 to conclude the exercise of its powers concerning the Unitary Development Plan.

 

Supplementary and Interim Planning Guidance

The following guidance was adopted on 9th July 2008 to support and explain the policies in the UDP.  All these documents aim to help explain to applicants, landowners, developers, interested groups and the community how the Authority is likely to consider proposals and the information and action that is likely to be required from applicants.

SPG / IPG downloads

• Affordable Housing - Adobe PDF Document 491 KB
• Biodiversity - Adobe PDF Document 1039 KB
• Developer Contributions - Adobe PDF Document 409 KB
• Landscape - Adobe PDF Document 565 KB
• Open Space - Adobe PDF Document 290 KB
• Sustainable Development and Addressing Climate Change - Adobe PDF Document 239 KB
• Wind Turbine Development - Adobe PDF Document 2194 KB
• Welsh Language - Adobe PDF Document 636 KB
• Yr Iaith Gymraeg - Adobe PDF Document 1842 KB

(Note: to download the files, click on the links above. For further details on how to view PDF documents, refer to our Help pages.)

The SPG and IPG listed above were adopted by the Authority on the 9^th July as guidance supporting and explaining the policies in the UDP and the Authority’s Approach to TAN8 : Renewable Energy.  The Authority determined that as the documents relate  to guidance and explanations and not policy, the undertaking of Strategic Environmental Assessment under the Environmental Assessment of Plans and Progress (Wales) Regulations 2004 was not required.

* Associated technical documents are to be found on the Associated Documents page

Downloads

• Adopted UDP - March 2008

• Notice of Adoption (Adobe PDF - 15 KB)
• Adopted UDP - Text (Adobe PDF - 1.13 MB)
• Adopted UDP - Proposals Map (Adobe PDF - 8.22 MB)
  • Map 1 (Adobe PDF - 2.35 MB)
  • Map 2 (Adobe PDF - 1.25 MB)
  • Map 3 (Adobe PDF - 958 KB)
  • Map 4 (Adobe PDF - 1.69 MB)
  • Map 5 (Adobe PDF - 2.06 MB)
  • Map 6 (Adobe PDF - 1.31 MB)
  • Map 7 (Adobe PDF - 807 KB)
  • Map 8 (Adobe PDF - 1.1 MB)
  • Map 9 (Adobe PDF - 1.72 MB)
  • Map 10 and KEY (Adobe PDF - 210 KB)
  • Maps 11 - 14 (Adobe PDF - 1 MB)
  • District Maps (Adobe PDF - 5.83 MB)
• Statement - Strategic Environmental Assessment (Adobe PDF - 13 KB)
• Statement - Habitats Directive (Appropriate Assessment) (Adobe PDF - 13 KB)
• Development Plan index (Adobe PDF - 105 KB)

(Note: to download the files, click on the links above. For further details on how to view PDF documents, refer to our Help pages)

 

The new Local Development Plan (LDP)

Work on the LDP is programmed to start in September 2008. For information on the Local Development Plan, please see:

Neath Port Talbot Local Development Plan.