Guidance

Local Plan: monitoring progress

The Planning Inspectorate maintains a list of the overall position for each LPA and a list of local plan examination hearing dates we are holding over the next few months

Applies to England

Documents

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Details

If you have a question about the timing of the publication, submission or adoption of a local plan, please contact the relevant LPA directly.

Updates to this page

Published 1 January 2012
Last updated 4 August 2025 show all updates
  1. Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  2. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  3. Plans containing non-strategic policies, Local Plan examination hearing dates and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  4. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies documents updated

  5. Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  6. Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  7. LPA hearing dates updated

  8. Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated with February 2025 data

  9. Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  10. Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  11. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated with January 2025 data

  12. Hearing dates added for Enfield local plan

  13. Latest hearing dates added. Table updated to reorder most recent at top.

  14. The following have been updated: Plans containing strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing strategic policies - HTML attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - HTML attachment

  15. Latest data updated for 'Plans containing strategic policies' and 'Plans containing non-strategic policies'

  16. 'list of local plan examination hearing dates' updated.

  17. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  18. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  19. Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  20. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  21. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  22. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  23. Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  24. All attachments have been updated.

  25. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies have been updated

  26. Plans containing strategic policies -and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  27. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  28. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates all updated with latest data

  29. Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated with March 2023 data

  30. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  31. A hearing date for for Blackburn & Darwin has been added to the Local Plan examination dates.

  32. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  33. Local Plan examination hearing dates data updated

  34. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  35. Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  36. Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  37. Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  38. Warrington and Barking and Dagenham added to the local plan hearing dates

  39. Updated with hearing dates for Cornwall Council's Climate Emergency DPD examination.

  40. Hearing dates added, plans containing strategic and plans containing non-strategic updated.

  41. Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.

  42. Plans containing strategic policies updated for March 2022. No update to the Plans containing non-strategic policies.

  43. East Northants hearing details added

  44. Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  45. A list of Local Plan Examination hearing dates the Planning Inspectorate is holding over the next few months has been added

  46. Plans containing strategic policies updated.

  47. Plans containing strategic policies updated

  48. Plans containing strategic policies list updated

  49. July data added to the strategic plan sheet

  50. July 2021 data added

  51. First published.

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