Local Development Framework

The Authority started work on the Local Development Framework for the National Park in 2004.  The Framework consists of a number of different documents to guide future development whilst ensuring that the National Park's special qualities are conserved and enhanced. The Core Strategy and Development Policies document is the key part of the new North York Moors Local Development Framework. It sets out a spatial vision for the future of the National Park, Core Policies setting a strategic framework for the scale and location of all types of new development and more detailed Development Policies against which individual proposals including waste and mineral proposals will be assessed.  It was adopted by the Authority on 13th November 2008.  It supersedes all the policies contained in the former North York Moors Local Plan (2003). 

Opens page - Core Strategy and Development Policies

An update on progress with the documents making up the Local Development Framework can be found by clicking here. If you would like to be on the mailing list for the Local Development Framework, please complete the Mailing List Form.

The Coalition government has pledged to reform the planning system and further details of the proposed changes are expected by the end of November 2010.  Further information is available on the Communities and Local Government web site which can be accessed by clicking here.