Saved Policies
The Adopted Core Strategy came into force on 9th December
2010. At this point, the Core Strategy became part of the
Statutory Development Plan for the District. As a result, a
number of those policies which were initially 'saved' beyond
September 2007 have now been replaced.
View the full
list of those policies which have lapsed, been replaced by
Core Strategy policies and those which continue to be in
force. 
(53K)
Under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, which
brought in the system of Local Development Frameworks (LDF), the
policies in the adopted District Local Plan were saved for a
transitional period of three years from the date of the
commencement of Act. This period expired on the 27th September
2007. The Act does, however, allow the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government to extend the saving of policies
beyond that date.
View the DCLG
Saved Policies Protocol (104K)
In March 2007, the District Council made an application to
Government Office for the West Midlands (GOWM) to ‘save’ a number
of policies in the Adopted District Local Plan beyond the 27th
September 2007.
View the
application made to GOWM (523K)
The District Council received a Direction from the Government
Office for the West Midlands dated the 7th September 2007, under
paragraph 1(3) of schedule 8 to the Planning and Compulsory
Purchase Act 2004 setting out the policies which are ‘saved beyond’
the 27th September 2007.
View GOWM
letter and Direction (126K)
