Bath & North East Somerset Local Plan Including Minerals & Waste Policies

What is the Local Plan?

The Local Plan is the primary basis for deciding planning applications. It sets out policies which guide how and where development should take place up to the year 2011.

It influences where people live and work and what facilities are available to them. It therefore helps to achieve the development that is needed whilst at the same time protecting and enhancing local character and the environment.

Local Plan was adopted on 18th October 2007

The Bath & North East Somerset Local Plan has now superseeded all existing adopted Local Plans.

The Development Plan for the district will now comprise:

Regional Planning Guidance 10 (Pending adoption of the RSS)
Saved Policies from the Joint Replacement Structure Plan
Bath & North East Somerset Local Plan including minerals and waste policies

Download the adopted version of the Local Plan at the top right hand side of this page.

If you are unable to access or use this document please contact the planning policy team (using the contact details on this page) for further help and advice.

Adoption Notice

Town and Country Planning Act 1990

Notice of Adoption of a Local Plan

Bath & North East Somerset Local Plan including minerals and waste policies

On 18 October 2007, Bath & North East Somerset Council adopted this plan. The plan will form part of the development plan for the area of Bath & North East Somerset. The development plan forms the basis for decisions on land use planning affecting that area.

Copies of the adopted plan are available for inspection on Mondays to Thursdays 9.00 am to 5.00 pm and Fridays 9.00 am to 4.30 pm at the following offices:

Trimbridge House, Trim Street, Bath, BA1 2DP;
The Hollies, Midsomer Norton, Bath, BA3 2DP;
Riverside, Temple Street, Keynsham, Bristol, BS31 1LA

The document may also be viewed on the Council’s website.

Copies of the plan can be obtained on request and on payment of a reasonable charge.

The plan came into operation on its adoption. A person aggrieved by the plan who desires to question its validity on the grounds that it is not within the powers conferred by Part II of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 or that any requirement of that Act or any regulation made under it has not been complied with in relation to the adoption of the plan, may, within 6 weeks from 18 October 2007, make an application to the High Court under section 287 of the 1990 Act..

David Trigwell

Assistant Director of Planning & Transport

Bath & North East Somerset Council

Proposals Maps

We are currently working to produce a consolidated version of the Proposals Maps. The deposit draft (2002) proposals maps need to be looked at in conjunction with the revised deposit draft proposals maps, the proposed modifications to the proposals maps (2006) and the further proposed modifications to the proposals maps (2007).

BATH & NORTH EAST SOMERSET LOCAL PLAN FURTHER PROPOSED MODIFICATIONS (amendments to the Hayesfield School Playing Field and South West Keynsham allocations)

Proposed Modifications to the Proposals Maps (November 2006)

Revised Deposit Draft Local Plan Proposal Maps (July 2003)

Proposal Maps (Deposit Draft 2002)

Proposal Maps now online via the Council's "My Area" interactive mapping system. Click the following link to view.

Strategic Flood Risk Assessment

The Strategic Flood Risk Assessment has been prepared on behalf the Council by expert consultants. It supersedes existing data on flood risk including the indicative floodplain used in the Bath and North East Somerset Local Plan.

Click here to find out more.