Lancaster South Area Action Plan (AAP)
The adopted Local Plan set out an ambitious vision for the district but, since its publication in 2020, it has been subject to a number of challenges outside of its control which has led to the Council on 12 September 2023 taking the decision to undertake a Full Review of its content and direction. The Full Review will commence later this year and will look to revisit a range of issues that will include (but is not limited to) matters of housing, employment, climate change, design and the natural environment.
The decision to undertake a Full Review of the Plan has led to the decision to cease work on the preparation of the Lancaster South Area Action Plan. Key reasons for the suspension of this work included the decision by Lancashire County Council in June 2023 to suspend work on the proposed South Lancaster to M6 Transport Project (otherwise known as the South Lancaster Growth Catalyst). The reasoning behind this suspension of this work related to the increasing inflationary costs of the project and its implications on the ability to delivery sustainable growth in the South Lancaster area.
Archived - The AAP Storyboard and the evidence that would have informed the AAP
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Plan making stages completed before decison was made to not progress the AAP.
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In February 2022 the Council published a concept masterplan for a new garden village. This was prepared by specialist design consultants JTP.
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During 2022 the Council gathered evidence (information) and advice from specialists on matters such as ecology, landscape, water management, archaeology and sustainable travel measures. The Council’s officers have also been talking with stakeholders such as the Environment Agency and meeting local Parish Councillors to talk about progress and issues.
- In summer 2022 the Council published papers to ask for views about how decisions should be made about which areas of land should be developed or kept as open spaces and, in November 2022, it published six different topic papers on how issues such as travel and transport and water management should be advanced when writing the planning policies.
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Previous consultations
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Please Note: Lancashire County Council is the local highway authority for Lancaster. The County Council has been exploring approaches to managing travel in Lancaster, these are described on the County Council’s “Transforming travel in Lancaster” webpages.
