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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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
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4 August 2025 Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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9 July 2025 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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9 June 2025 Plans containing non-strategic policies, Local Plan examination hearing dates and Plans containing strategic policies updated
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8 May 2025 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies documents updated
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2 May 2025 Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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7 April 2025 Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated
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4 April 2025 LPA hearing dates updated
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17 February 2025 Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated with February 2025 data
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10 February 2025 Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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8 January 2025 Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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7 January 2025 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated with January 2025 data
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10 December 2024 Hearing dates added for Enfield local plan
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10 December 2024 Latest hearing dates added. Table updated to reorder most recent at top.
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7 November 2024 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
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8 October 2024 Latest data updated for 'Plans containing strategic policies' and 'Plans containing non-strategic policies'
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25 September 2024 'list of local plan examination hearing dates' updated.
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11 September 2024 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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8 August 2024 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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5 July 2024 Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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12 April 2024 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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13 March 2024 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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22 January 2024 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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7 November 2023 Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated
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16 October 2023 All attachments have been updated.
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8 August 2023 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies have been updated
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7 July 2023 Plans containing strategic policies -and Plans containing strategic policies updated
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9 June 2023 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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13 April 2023 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates all updated with latest data
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20 March 2023 Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated with March 2023 data
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27 February 2023 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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1 December 2022 A hearing date for for Blackburn & Darwin has been added to the Local Plan examination dates.
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14 November 2022 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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10 November 2022 Local Plan examination hearing dates data updated
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13 October 2022 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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5 September 2022 Local Plan examination hearing dates updated
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10 August 2022 Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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12 July 2022 Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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6 July 2022 Warrington and Barking and Dagenham added to the local plan hearing dates
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1 June 2022 Updated with hearing dates for Cornwall Council's Climate Emergency DPD examination.
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12 May 2022 Hearing dates added, plans containing strategic and plans containing non-strategic updated.
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7 April 2022 Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.
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7 March 2022 Plans containing strategic policies updated for March 2022. No update to the Plans containing non-strategic policies.
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1 March 2022 East Northants hearing details added
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23 February 2022 Plans containing non-strategic policies updated
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17 February 2022 A list of Local Plan Examination hearing dates the Planning Inspectorate is holding over the next few months has been added
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14 February 2022 Plans containing strategic policies updated.
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8 October 2021 Plans containing strategic policies updated
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2 September 2021 Plans containing strategic policies list updated
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9 August 2021 July data added to the strategic plan sheet
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26 July 2021 July 2021 data added
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1 January 2012 First published.