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Local Plan evidence base

The Local Plan evidence base contains a series of reports and studies which have helped to shape the planning policies for the District.

Population, housing and health

Housing

PDF Icon Core Strategy Options - March 2011 - pdf - 242 Kb

PDF Icon Affordable Housing Viability Report - April 2008 - pdf - 1.91 Mb

PDF Icon Affordable Housing Site Viability Study - February 2008 - pdf - 1.69 Mb

PDF Icon Housing Land Supply - April 2015 - pdf - 347 Kb

PDF Icon Housing Supply - July 2011 - pdf - 371 Kb

PDF Icon Housing Needs Assessment - Nov 2009 - pdf - 6.12 Mb

PDF Icon Keynote 86 Monitoring Of Core Strategy - Sept 2011 - pdf - 232 Kb

PDF Icon Objectively Assessed Housing Need Proposed Future Provision - 2015 - pdf - 302 Kb

PDF Icon Objectively Assessed Housing Need Report Fod Stroud And Cotswolds - 2014 - pdf - 1.37 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Local Housing Needs Assessment - 2019 - pdf - 3.44 Mb

Population

PDF Icon Forest Of Dean Story - 2005 - pdf - 391 Kb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Population Monitor - 2015 - pdf - 444 Kb

PDF Icon Indices Of Deprivation - July 2011 - pdf - 2.92 Mb

PDF Icon Keynote 9 History Of The Forest - July 2011 - pdf - 164 Kb

PDF Icon Our Forest Our Future - 2008 to 2020 - pdf - 911 Kb

PDF Icon Our Place Our Future Glos Sustainable Community Strategy - 2007 to 2017 - pdf - 447 Kb

PDF Icon Understanding Forest Of Dean - 2015 - pdf - 6.28 Mb

Strategic Housing Market Assessment

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Strategic Housing Market Assessment - 2014 - pdf - 640 Kb

PDF Icon Strategic Housing Market Assessment March - 2014 - pdf - 2.36 Mb

PDF Icon Strategic Housing Market Assessment - 2009 - pdf - 7.61 Mb

PDF Icon Strategic Housing Market Assessment Exec Summary - 2009 - pdf - 1.34 Mb

PDF Icon Strategic Housing Market Assessment Management Summary - February 2009 - pdf - 81 Kb

PDF Icon Strategic Housing Market Assessment Technical - 2009 - pdf - 1.14 Mb

 

The local economy

Town Centre monitoring

Reports on Cinderford, Coleford, Lydney and Newent are available to download from the Town Centre Monitoring page.

Economy

PDF Icon Employment Report - 2019 - pdf - 9.71 Mb

PDF Icon Employment 02 Keynote Update - 2015 - pdf - 1.48 Mb

PDF Icon Forest Of Dean Economic Profile - Updated 2015 - pdf - 1.75 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Growth Hub - pdf - 2.92 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Strategic Economic Plan - March 2014 - pdf - 8.49 Mb

PDF Icon Growing The Economy Plan - 2015 to 2019 - pdf - 224 Kb

PDF Icon Land For Employment - July 2011 - pdf - 357 Kb

PDF Icon Marketing And Workspace Study 2008 - pdf - 1.39 Mb

PDF Icon Review Of Economic Forecast - pdf - 3.72 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Economic Needs Assessment - 2020 - pdf - 7.19 Mb

Retail

PDF Icon Retail Study - 2014 - pdf - 7.97 Mb

PDF Icon Retail Study Update - 2011 - pdf - 687 Kb

PDF Icon Retail Study - 2008 - pdf - 5.46 Mb

Tourism

PDF Icon Year On Year Comparison - 2007 to 2016 - pdf - 13 Kb

PDF Icon Impact Of Visitor Economy - 2016 - pdf - 882 Kb

PDF Icon Impact Of Visitor Economy Forest Of Dean - 2013 - pdf - 616 Kb

 

Settlement hierarchy

PDF Icon Settlement Hierarchy - September 2018 - pdf - 1.89 Mb

PDF Icon Settlement Hierarchy - 2011 - pdf - 1.60 Mb

PDF Icon Self Containment And Settlement Strategy - 2011 - pdf - 2.89 Mb

PDF Icon Functional Analysis Of Settlements - April 2005 - pdf - 512 Kb

Environment and nature

Flood risk assessments also form part of the evidence base and are available to download from the Flood Risk Assessment page.

PDF Icon 105 Forest Of Dean - 2015 - pdf - 3.93 Mb

PDF Icon Air Quality And Designated Sites - August 2015 - pdf - 355 Kb

PDF Icon Biodiversity And Nature Conservation Figures - September 2011 - pdf - 1.81 Mb

PDF Icon Biodiversity And Nature Conservation - September 2011 - pdf - 11.27 Mb

PDF Icon Cinderford Northern Quarter Biodiversity Strategy Technical Guidance - September 2013 - pdf - 4.22 Mb

PDF Icon Coal Authority Consultation - March 2015 - pdf - 407 Kb

PDF Icon Coleford Landscape Study Map - pdf - 519 Kb

PDF Icon Coleford Landscape Study Policy Review - pdf - 83 Kb

PDF Icon Coleford Landscape Study Supporting Analysis - pdf - 890 Kb

PDF Icon Cotswolds Beechwood Mitigation Strategy - May 2022 - pdf - 5.38 Mb

PDF Icon Dean By Definition Report - April 2003 - pdf - 5.22 Mb

PDF Icon Development Sites Water Treatment And Water Supply Summary - July 2015 - pdf - 366 Kb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire 186 Delivery Plan - May 2009 - pdf - 369 Kb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Renewable Energy Study - June 2010 - pdf - 1.05 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Sustainable Urban Design - April 2015 - pdf - 10.35 Mb

PDF Icon Green Infrastructure - 2015 - pdf - 1.06 Mb

PDF Icon Green Inrastructure In Gloucestershire - pdf - 317 Kb

PDF Icon Habitat Regulations Assessment of Allocations Plan - March 2015 - pdf - 771 Kb

PDF Icon Hra 2015 Appendix 1 Screening Tables - pdf - 580 Kb

PDF Icon Hra 2015 Appendix 2 European Site Information - pdf - 748 Kb

PDF Icon Hra 2015 Appendix 3 Site Vulnerabilities - pdf - 222 Kb

PDF Icon Hra 2015 Appendix 4 Detailed Policy - pdf - 477 Kb

PDF Icon Hra 2015 Appendix 5 Plans And Projects - pdf - 76 Kb

PDF Icon HRA Allocations Plan Addendum - September 2016 - pdf - 426 Kb

PDF Icon HRA Allocations Plan Recommendations - September 2016 - pdf - 204 Kb

PDF Icon HRA Allocations Plan Addendum - December 2016 - pdf - 326 Kb

PDF Icon HRA Allocations Plan Addendum - October 2017 - pdf - 340 Kb

PDF Icon Allocations Plan Habitat Regulations Sweetman Statement - May 2018 - pdf - 273 Kb

PDF Icon Important Open Areas Schedule - March 2015 - pdf - 942 Kb

PDF Icon Important Open Areas - March 2015 - pdf - 318 Kb

PDF Icon Integrated Rural Development Programme - November 2006 - pdf - 866 Kb

PDF Icon Keynote 18 Severn Estuary - August 2015 - pdf - 1.60 Mb

PDF Icon Keynote 18 Severn Estuary Appendices - August 2015 - pdf - 1.82 Mb

PDF Icon Keynote 20 Herefordshire And Gloucestershire Canal - August 2015 - pdf - 283 Kb

PDF Icon Land Drainage Comments For Potential Allocations - October 2016 - pdf - 298 Kb

PDF Icon Landfill Sites - March 2015 - pdf - 114 Kb

PDF Icon Locally Distinct Areas - January 2015 - pdf - 4.93 Mb

PDF Icon Lydney New Grounds Report Bird Report May 2017 - pdf - 3.52 Mb

PDF Icon Malvern Hills Management Plan - 2014 to 2019 - pdf - 3.06 Mb

PDF Icon Review Of Special Status - 1999 Vol 1 - pdf - 4.16 Mb

PDF Icon Review Of Special Status 1999 Vol 2 - pdf - 8.21 Mb

PDF Icon Severn Estuary Strategy - 2017 to 2027 - pdf - 1.49 Mb

PDF Icon South West Marine Plan - June 2021 - pdf - 1.58 Mb

PDF Icon Staunton Landscape Study Map - pdf - 9.47 Mb

PDF Icon Staunton Landscape Study Panoramas - pdf - 469 Kb

PDF Icon Staunton Landscape Study Snigs End Report - pdf - 363 Kb

PDF Icon Water Supply - April 2015 - pdf - 290 Kb

PDF Icon Water Treatment And Supply - August 2015 - pdf - 363 Kb

PDF Icon Wind Energy Update - December 2013 - pdf - 150 Kb

PDF Icon Winter Feeding Studies On Greater Horseshoe Bats - 2002 - pdf - 20.41 Mb

PDF Icon Wye Valley And Forest Of Dean Bat SAC - August 2015 - pdf - 4.86 Mb

PDF Icon Wye Valley And Forest of Dean Bat Strategy - 2016 - pdf - 310 Kb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Aonb 26 - 2015 - pdf - 2.55 Mb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Management - 2004 Appendix - pdf - 1.27 Mb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Management 2004 Part 1 Outline - pdf - 1.85 Mb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Management 2004 Part 2 Strategy - pdf - 313 Kb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Management 2004 Part 3 Implementation - pdf - 444 Kb

PDF Icon Wye Valley Management Plan 2015 To 2020 - pdf - 1.24 Mb

Parish Plans

PDF Icon Awre Blakeney Parish Plan 2005 To 8 - pdf - 1.39 Mb

PDF Icon Aylburton Community Plan 2009 - pdf - 1.43 Mb

PDF Icon Cinderford Community Plan 2004 - pdf - 2.24 Mb

PDF Icon Coleford Time For Coleford 2003 - pdf - 1.61 Mb

PDF Icon Dymock Parish Plan Spring 2003 - pdf - 7.57 Mb

PDF Icon English Bicknor Parish Plan 2004 - pdf - 1.71 Mb

PDF Icon Gorsley And Kilcot Plan 2003 - pdf - 11.53 Mb

PDF Icon Huntley Parish Plan July 2004 - pdf - 13.29 Mb

PDF Icon Littledean Action Plan - pdf - 25 Kb

PDF Icon Littledean Parish Plan 2005 to 2008 - pdf - 327 Kb

PDF Icon Longhope Parish Plan 2005 - pdf - 12.88 Mb

PDF Icon Lydney Aip Turning The Tide - pdf - 1.69 Mb

PDF Icon Newland Parish Plan 2008 to 2011 - pdf - 1.41 Mb

PDF Icon Oxenhall Parish Plan - pdf - 214 Kb

PDF Icon Pauntley Parish Act - pdf - 321 Kb

PDF Icon Staunton Corse Parish Plan 2007 to 2010 - pdf - 2.30 Mb

PDF Icon St Briavels Parish Plan - pdf - 12.42 Mb

PDF Icon Tibberton Parish Plan 2002 - pdf - 2.68 Mb

PDF Icon Tidenham Parish Plan - pdf - 219 Kb

PDF Icon Westbury Parish Plan October 2005 - pdf - 18.79 Mb

PDF Icon Woolaston Parish Plan 2004 to 2009 - pdf - 2.62 Mb

Conservation, heritage and design

PDF Icon Heritage Character Assessment 2019 - pdf - 47.19 Mb

PDF Icon Heritage Keynote March 2015 - pdf - 470 Kb

PDF Icon Historic Environment In Local Plans July 2015 - pdf - 262 Kb

PDF Icon Longhope Character Assessment - pdf - 1.76 Mb

PDF Icon Malvern Hills Aonb Information For House Owners - pdf - 1.76 Mb

PDF Icon Managing Significance In Decision Taking March 2015 - pdf - 266 Kb

PDF Icon Manual for Gloucestershire Streets - July 2020 - pdf - 1.64 Mb

PDF Icon Setting Of Heritage Assets July 2015 - pdf - 322 Kb

PDF Icon Staunton Coleford Character Assessment Adopted March 2015 - pdf - 4.23 Mb

Transport, infrastructure and community

PDF Icon Adopted Gloucestershire Minerals Local Plan 1997 to 2006 - pdf - 13.39 Mb

PDF Icon Chepstow Transport Study Final Report P02 Dec 2018 - pdf - 2.96 Mb

PDF Icon Chepstow Transport Study Impacts Assessment Report Dec 2018 - pdf - 5.92 Mb

PDF Icon Gloucestershire Local Transport Plan 2011 To 26 - pdf - 5.11 Mb

PDF Icon Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2015 - pdf - 3.85 Mb

PDF Icon Infrastructure Delivery Plan Project Tracker 2014 - pdf - 146 Kb

PDF Icon Keynote 13 Section 106 Agreements July 2011 - pdf - 370 Kb

PDF Icon Keynote Infrastructure Delivery 2011 - pdf - 224 Kb

PDF Icon Keynote Minerals And Waste Sept2011 - pdf - 257 Kb

PDF Icon Keynote Section 106 Agreements 2011 - pdf - 406 Kb

PDF Icon Transport And Core Strategy Sept 2011 - pdf - 317 Kb

PDF Icon Waste Core Strategy Nov 2012 - pdf - 6.82 Mb

PDF Icon Waste Mininisation In Development Projects Sept 2006 - pdf - 1.17 Mb

Landscape assessments

The following plans are part of the strategic landscape assessments that are being undertaken and illustrate some of the considerations that apply in areas of search that are being evaluated as part of the Local Plan process. They form part of the process prior to any decision about site allocations and will sit alongside other evidence which will help to inform the Local Plan as it is compiled.

PDF Icon Beachley And Sedbury Parcel One North Of Railway Line October 2021 - pdf - 3.63 Mb

PDF Icon Beachley And Sedbury Parcel Two West Of Sedbury Lane October 2021 - pdf - 3.61 Mb

PDF Icon Beachley And Sedbury Parcel Three East Of Sedbury Lane October 2021 - pdf - 4.47 Mb

PDF Icon Beachley And Sedbury Parcel Four West Of Sedbury Road October 2021 - pdf - 2.92 Mb

PDF Icon Beachley And Sedbury Parcel Five Beachley Barracks October 2021 - pdf - 2.71 Mb

PDF Icon East Of Lydney Landscape Sensitivity April 2022 - pdf - 3.61 Mb

PDF Icon Glynch Brook Parcel One West Of Bury Mill September 2021 - pdf - 3.78 Mb

PDF Icon Glynch Brook Parcel Two North Of Glynch Brook September 2021 - pdf - 3.15 Mb

PDF Icon Glynch Brook Parcel Three West Of Wyndbrook Lane - pdf - 1.78 Mb

PDF Icon Glynch Brook Parcel Four East Of Wyndbrook Lane September 2021 - pdf - 1.95 Mb

PDF Icon Glynch Brook Parcel Five South Of Glynch Brook September 2021 - pdf - 2.34 Mb

PDF Icon Newent Area Landscape And Green Infrastructure Development Strategy December 2021 - pdf - 5.10 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel Boundaries Beachley And Sedbury Area February 2022 - pdf - 1.43 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel Boundaries Churcham Area June 2021 - pdf - 2.49 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel One North Of A40 June 2021 - pdf - 4.12 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel Two South Of A40 June 2021 - pdf - 5.49 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel Three South Of Railway Line June 2021 - pdf - 3.83 Mb

PDF Icon Parcel Four Tewkesbury Borough Council Parcel June 2021 - pdf - 4.11 Mb

PDF Icon West Of Lydney Landscape Sensitivity April 2022 - pdf - 3.89 Mb

Local Plan Economic Viability Assessment

We are required to collect and use evidence about the likely viability of development sites to support our new Local Plan.  A study to consider this and also the potential for a Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) together with the scope for affordable housing has been commissioned. 

PDF Icon Local Plan Economic Viability Assessment October 2021 - pdf - 7.39 Mb

PDF Icon Local Plan Economic Viability Assessment - October 2021 Appendices - pdf - 15.37 Mb

A consultation was held during Autumn 2020, further information can be viewed on the consultation portal.

Recreation and leisure

PDF Icon Lydney Harbour Area Recreation Study - pdf - 6.37 Mb

PDF Icon Forest of Dean PPS - Final Strategy & Action Plan 2022 - pdf - 1.12 Mb

PDF Icon Forest of Dean PPS - Final Assessment Report 2022 - pdf - 6.17 Mb

 

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