Context
In 2004 the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act introduced significant changes to the planning system, amongst them the replacement of Unitary Development Plans (UDPs) with Local Development Frameworks.
The Act allows existing UDP policies to be retained initially for a period of three years from the date of commencement of the Act, or the date of adoption of the relevant UDP so as to allow sufficient time for Local Development Frameworks to be prepared. If local authorities wish to save any policies beyond that initial three year period then the Act allows them to apply directly to the Secretary of State
Salford’s UDP was adopted on 21 June 2006 and its policies were therefore initially saved until 21 June 2009. The city council had not adopted by that date any Development Plan Documents as part of the new Local Development Framework to replace the UDP, and consequently applied to and received the consent of the Secretary of State to save many of the UDP Policies beyond 21 June 2009. These policies will gradually be replaced as Development Plan Documents such as the Core Strategy are adopted.
The city council’s application to the Secretary of State outlining why particular policies should or should not be saved is available on the council’s website at www.salford.gov.uk/udp. Also available at the same address is the Direction from the Secretary of State stating which policies have been saved.
This document contains the full wording of those policies that have been saved by the Secretary of State’s Direction. A list of policies not saved is provided in Annex 1.
Some of the saved policies and / or their reasoned justification cross refer to other policies that have not been saved. This is not however considered to undermine the effectiveness and / or the application of the saved policies.
To avoid potential confusion, the policy numbers and paragraph numbers of the Adopted UDP (published in June 2006) have been retained in this document.