Retained Planning Policy
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The existing suite of Planning Policy Statements and the remaining provisions of ‘A Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland’ are currently retained under the transitional arrangements of the SPPS.
These retained policies will be cancelled when all eleven councils have adopted a new Plan Strategy for the whole of their council area.
Further information on Departmental planning documents which will continue to be treated as material considerations during the transitional period (or as the case may be after the expiry of the transitional period) can be accessed under Planning Guidance.
The policy provisions of the following documents are retained:
Documents
- PPS 2: Natural Heritage
- PPS 3: Access, Movement and Parking
- PPS 3 (Clarification): Access, Movement and Parking
- PPS 4: Planning and Economic Development
- PPS 4: Clarification of PED 7
- PPS 6: Planning, Archaeology and the Built Heritage
- PPS 6 (Addendum): Areas of Townscape Character
- PPS 7: Quality Residential Environments
- PPS 7 (Addendum): Residential Extensions and Alterations
- PPS 7 (Addendum): Safeguarding the Character of Established Residential Areas
- PPS 8: Open Space, Sport and Outdoor Recreation
- PPS 10: Telecommunications (Policy TEL 2 is cancelled)
- PPS 11: Planning and Waste Management
- PPS 12: Housing in Settlements
- PPS 12: Policy HS 3 (Amended) 'Travellers Accommodation'
- PPS 13: Transportation and Land Use
- PPS 15 (Revised): Planning and Flood Risk
- PPS 16: Tourism
- PPS 17: Control of Outdoor Advertisements
- PPS 18: Renewable Energy
- PPS 21: Sustainable Development in the Countryside
- PPS 23: Enabling Development
- Relevant Provisions of 'A Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland'
- Current Status of Planning Strategy for Rural Northern Ireland