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

PART 6 N.I. Annual monitoring report and review of a local development plan

Annual monitoring report N.I.

25.—(1) The annual monitoring report must be—

(a) for the period of twelve months commencing on 1st April in each year and ending on 31st March in the following year, and

(b) the time prescribed for the purposes of section 21(3)(a) is six months after the end of the period in respect of which the report is made or at any other time that may be agreed with the Department.

(2) The annual monitoring report must specify—

(a) the housing land supply at the beginning and end of the period specified in paragraph (1),

(b) the number of net additional housing units built in the council's district for—

(i) the period specified in paragraph (1), and

(ii) the period since the local policies plan was first adopted or approved;

(c) the supply of land for economic development purposes in the council's district, and

(d) such other issues as appear to the council to be relevant to the implementation of the local development plan.

(3) Where a policy specified in a local development plan is not being implemented, the annual monitoring report must identify that policy and include a statement of—

(a) the reasons why that policy is not being implemented,

(b) the steps (if any) that the council intend to take to secure the implementation of it, and

(c) whether the council intend to prepare a revision of the local development plan to replace or amend the policy.

(4) In this regulation and regulation 27 “annual monitoring report” means the annual report under section 21.

Review of a local development plan N.I.

26.—(1) A council must carry out a review of its local development plan every five years and no later than five years from the date that the local policies plan was first adopted or approved.

(2) The council must send to the Department a report on the findings of the review.

Availability of annual monitoring report and review N.I.

27.  As soon as reasonably practicable after a council complies with regulation 25 or 26 it must do the following—

(a) make available for inspection a copy of the annual monitoring report or, as the case may be, the report on the findings of the review during normal office hours at—

(i) its principal offices, and

(ii) such other places within its district as it considers appropriate;

(b) give notice by local advertisement that the annual monitoring report or, as the case may be, the report on the findings of the review is available for inspection and the places and times at which it can be inspected; and

(c) publish the annual monitoring report or, as the case may be, the report on the findings of the review on its website.