The Planning (Local Development Plan) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

PART 4 N.I. Form and content of development plan document

Form and content of a development plan document N.I.

12.—(1) A development plan document must contain—

(a) a title which must give the name of the council district for which the development plan document is prepared and indicate whether it is a plan strategy or a local policies plan, and

(b) a sub-title which must indicate the date of the adoption of the development plan document.

(2) A development plan document must contain a reasoned justification of the policies contained in it.

(3) Those parts of a development plan document which comprise the policies of the development plan document and those parts which comprise the reasoned justification required by paragraph (2) must be readily distinguishable.

Proposals map N.I.

13.—(1) A development plan document must contain a map or maps, (to be known as “ the proposals map”), describing the policies and proposals set out in the development plan document so far as practicable to illustrate such policies or proposals spatially.

(2) The proposals map is to be sufficiently detailed so as to enable the location of proposals for the development and use of land to be identified.

(3) In the case of any contradiction between the written statement and any other document forming part of a local development plan, the written statement shall prevail.

Additional matters to be taken into account N.I.

14.—(1) The other matters that the council must take into account in preparing a local development plan are—

(a) the objectives of preventing major accidents and limiting the consequence of such accidents,

(b) the need—

(i) in the long term to maintain appropriate distances between establishments covered by the Directive and residential areas, buildings and areas of public use, major transport routes as far as possible, recreational areas and areas of particular natural sensitivity or interest, and

(ii) in the case of existing establishments, for additional technical measures in accordance with Article 5 of the Directive so as not to increase the risks to people.

(2) In this regulation—

(a) the Directive means Council Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, and

(b) expressions used in paragraph (1) and in the Directive have the same meaning in that paragraph as in the Directive.