About the Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury Strategic and Local Plan (SLP)

The Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury Strategic and Local Plan (SLP) will bring together four core elements – formerly the Gloucester, Cheltenham & Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy and the local plans for each of those areas – under a single examination setting out a long-term vision for development.

All three councils have approved their local development schemes (LDS) to ensure that future documents that are set out by a planning policy framework for all three districts are “robust and make a positive impact towards the national effort to address climate change”, said the councils.

The LDS sets the outline programme for the joint plan, which is:-

• A public consultation (Regulation 18) in winter 2023 / spring 2024.
• Community and stakeholder engagement (Regulation 18) from spring 2025 - spring 2026.
• A public consultation (Regulation 19) in spring/summer 2026 – this provides an opportunity for representations on the ‘soundness’ of the plan before it is examined by an independent Planning Inspector.
• Submission of the local plan to the secretary of state (Regulation 22) in autumn/winter 2026.

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Need more information? Contact the planning policy teams at any of the three councils via info@strategiclocalplan.org or get in touch with Go Vocal for more technical questions via support@govocal.com