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The council has begun preparing the successor to the Core Strategy, which will be known as the Core Strategy Review. An Issues and Options Consultation was held in 2009. A consultation period on the Preferred Strategy is due to take place this summer. For further information, please view the dedicated webpages by following the link below:
The Core Strategy is the central document of the Local Development Framework, and sets out the spatial vision, objectives, and policies for managing development in Crawley up to 2016 and beyond.
The Core Strategy largely supersedes the Crawley Local Plan (2000), although a number of Local Plan policies have been ‘saved’ until the adoption of the Core Strategy Review. Therefore, the Core Strategy and the saved policies of the Local Plan are the current Development Plan for the Borough.
Set out below are web links to the Core Strategy, Proposals Map and Adoption Statement:
The Local Plan saved policies are set out in the following document from the Government Office for the South East.
To view the draft of the Core Strategy that was originally submitted to the Secretary of State, click on the link below:
Submission Core Strategy and Proposals Map
The Council received the Inspectors Report into the soundness of the Core Strategy on 20 August 2007. The Inspector concluded that the Core Strategy was sound subject to a number of changes set out in the report. To read a summary of the report, click to read the Inspectors Report Information Bulletin.
The changes recommended by the Inspector have been included in the Core Strategy, and on the accompanying Proposals Map. On the 28th November 2007, the Council adopted formally the Core Strategy, Proposals Map and Sustainability Appraisal / Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA / SEA).
The SA / SEA and its specific Adoption Statement can viewed below:
On the 7th January 2008, the North East Sector consortium submitted a challenge to the Core Strategy to the High Court. The challenge sought to quash two elements of the adopted Core Strategy. The Council decided to contend the consortium's challenge and hearings were held at the High Court in October 2008.
The judge, Mr Justice Wilkie, found in favour of the consortium for both elements of the Core Strategy that were being sought to be quashed. The version of the Core Strategy available above has been revised to reflect this decision.
A Briefing Note relating to the High Court Challenge can be viewed below:
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