Document downloads - New local plan – 2020-2041

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Available downloads

• Local Development Scheme 2023

  • Local Development Scheme 2023 (PDF, 291.21 KB)

• Provision for Open Space Sport and Recreation - Delivery Plan 2021

  • Provision for Open Space Sport and Recreation - Delivery Plan 2021 v1.2 FINAL (PDF, 1.81 MB)

• Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA), 2021 - Site Companion Guide

  • Final Site Companion Guide 05 09 2022 (PDF, 17.34 MB)

• SHELAA Report, 2021 (August 2022)

  • SHELAA Main Report Final 09 22 (PDF, 894.81 KB)

• SHELAA Frequently Asked Questions

  • SHELAA Publication FAQs - FINAL 07 09 22 (PDF, 65.14 KB)

• Settlement Hierarchy Assessment

  • Settlement Hierarchy Assessment (PDF, 1.34 MB)

• Summary of Duty to Cooperate Engagement

  • Summary of Duty to Cooperate Engagement (PDF, 397.97 KB)

• Equality Impact Assessment

  • Equality Impact Assessment (PDF, 340.36 KB)

• Site Selection Methodology, 2023

  • Site Selection Methodology, 2023 (PDF, 903.97 KB)

• Issues and Options Sustainability Appraisal

  • Issues and Options Sustainability Appraisal (PDF, 11.2 MB)

• Habitats Regulations Assessment

  • Habitats Regulations Assessment (PDF, 18.18 MB)

• Issues and Options Consultation Document

  • Issues and Options Consultation Document (PDF, 2.27 MB)

• Issues and Options Consultation Document Summary Guide

  • Issues and Options Consultation Document Summary Guide (PDF, 5.9 MB)

• Air Quality Report

  • Air Quality Report (PDF, 21.5 MB)

• SHELAA Companion Guide 2024

  • SHELAA Companion Guide 2024 (PDF, 13.02 MB)

• Strategic B8 Needs Sensitivity Report

  • Strategic B8 Needs Sensitivity Report (PDF, 1.7 MB)

  • Appendix: Assessment of Potential B8 Sites (PDF, 3.11 MB)

• Green and Blue Infrastructure Study

  • Green and Blue Infrastructure Study (PDF, 21.94 MB)

• Air Quality Report

  • Air Quality Report (PDF, 21.5 MB)

• Climate Change and Renewable Energy Study

  • Climate Change and Renewable Energy Study Policy Review (PDF, 1.59 MB)

  • Climate Change and Renewable Energy Study Risk Assessment (PDF, 15.43 MB)

• Harborough Local Housing and Employment Land Evidence

  • Harborough Local Housing and Employment Land Evidence Report (PDF, 2.32 MB)

  • Appendix A: Review of Existing Employment Areas & Extant Allocations (PDF, 2.78 MB)

  • Appendix B: Assessment of Commercial Attractiveness of Candidate Employment Sites (PDF, 386.21 KB)

• Heritage Analysis of Local Plan Sites

  • Heritage Analysis of Local Plan Sites (PDF, 434.54 KB)

• Landscape Character Assessment

  • Landscape Character Assessment (PDF, 7.15 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 1: Farmed Plateau Ridge Tops (PDF, 1.14 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 2: Elevated Rolling Farmland (PDF, 2.87 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 3: Rolling Wooded Farmland (PDF, 2.18 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 4: Settled and Farmed Edge (PDF, 1.69 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 5: Settled Vale (PDF, 1.69 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 6: River Valley Slopes (PDF, 1.58 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 7: River Valley Floodplain (PDF, 1.59 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 8: Elevated Farmed Plateau (PDF, 1.64 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 9: Open Farmed Lowlands (PDF, 1.63 MB)

  • Landscape Character Type 10: Transitional Rolling Farmland (PDF, 2 MB)

• Green Wedge Assessment

  • Green Wedge Assessment (PDF, 10.06 MB)

• Landscape Sensitivity Assessment

  • Landscape Sensitivity Assessment Solar PV and Wind Energy Development (PDF, 17.85 MB)

  • Landscape Sensitivity Assessment Potential Residential and Employment Sites (PDF, 15.95 MB)

• Area of Separation Study

  • Area of Separation Study (PDF, 15.59 MB)

• Health Impact Assessment

  • Health Impact Assessment (PDF, 3.7 MB)

• Settlement Hierarchy Assessment January 2025

  • Settlement Hierarchy Assessment January 2025 (PDF, 1.35 MB)

• Retail Town Centres Study

  • Retail Town Centres Study (PDF, 5.25 MB)

  • Household Survey by Zone (PDF, 2.66 MB)

• Strategic Transport Impact Assessment

  • Harborough Strategic Transport Impact Assessment (PDF, 13.61 MB)

• Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Level 1

  • Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Level 1 Report (PDF, 3.16 MB)

  • Appendix A: Level 1 GeoPDF Mapping (PDF, 2.17 MB)

  • Appendix B: Data Sources (PDF, 533.71 KB)

  • Appendix C: SFRA User Guide (PDF, 129.87 KB)

  • Appendix D: Flood Alert and Warnings (PDF, 160.75 KB)

  • Appendix E: Harborough Flood Risk Summary (PDF, 534.21 KB)

  • Appendix F: CIA (PDF, 1.81 MB)

• South Leicestershire Joint Transport Evidence Study Stage 1

  • South Leicestershire Joint Transport Evidence Study Stage 1 (PDF, 10.26 MB)

• Joint Water Cycle Scoping Study

  • Joint Water Cycle Scoping Study (PDF, 15.73 MB)

• SHELAA Assessment Update 2024

  • SHELAA Assessment Update 2024 (PDF, 908.07 KB)

• Gypsy & Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Assessment

  • Gypsy & Traveller and Travelling Showpeople Site Assessment (PDF, 2.73 MB)

• Harborough Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment

  • Harborough Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (PDF, 1.9 MB)

• Policies Maps

  • Overview (PDF, 5.55 MB)

  • Land South of Gartree Road (PDF, 15.66 MB)

  • Lutterworth, Bitteswell and Magna Park (PDF, 6.67 MB)

  • Market Harborough North and Great Bowden (PDF, 7.99 MB)

  • Market Harborough South and Great Bowden (PDF, 7.85 MB)

  • Thurnby, Bushby, Scraptoft (PDF, 4.84 MB)

  • The Kibworths and Smeeton Westerby (PDF, 2.63 MB)

  • Broughton Astley (PDF, 1.53 MB)

  • Fleckney (PDF, 2.23 MB)

  • Ullesthorpe (PDF, 3.42 MB)

  • Allexton (PDF, 2.57 MB)

  • Arnesby (PDF, 3.33 MB)

  • Ashby Magna (PDF, 2.53 MB)

  • Ashby Parva (PDF, 2.87 MB)

  • Billesdon (PDF, 3.91 MB)

  • Blaston (PDF, 1.91 MB)

  • Bruntingthrope Proving Ground (PDF, 5.13 MB)

  • Bruntingthorpe (PDF, 2.38 MB)

  • Burton Overy (PDF, 2.94 MB)

  • Carlton Curlieu (PDF, 1.82 MB)

  • Catthorpe (PDF, 2.09 MB)

  • Church Langton and East Langton (PDF, 3.24 MB)

  • Claybrooke Magna and Parva (PDF, 3.3 MB)

  • Cotesbach (PDF, 2.6 MB)

  • Drayton (PDF, 2.1 MB)

  • Dunton Basset (PDF, 3.55 MB)

  • East Norton (PDF, 1.94 MB)

  • Foxton (PDF, 3.87 MB)

  • Frolesworth (PDF, 2.25 MB)

  • Gaulby (PDF, 2.27 MB)

  • Gilmorton (PDF, 4.17 MB)

  • Great Easton with Bringhurst (PDF, 3.25 MB)

  • Great Glen (PDF, 6.55 MB)

  • Gumley (PDF, 2.28 MB)

  • Hallaton (PDF, 3.47 MB)

  • Horninghold (PDF, 2.49 MB)

  • Houghton on the Hill (PDF, 4.17 MB)

  • Hungarton (PDF, 2.47 MB)

  • Husbands Bosworth (PDF, 4.28 MB)

  • Illston on the Hill (PDF, 2.53 MB)

  • Keyham (PDF, 2.73 MB)

  • Kimcote (PDF, 2.82 MB)

  • Kings Norton (PDF, 2.34 MB)

  • Laughton (PDF, 2.32 MB)

  • Leicester Airport (PDF, 3.57 MB)

  • Leire (PDF, 3.77 MB)

  • Loddington (PDF, 2.72 MB)

  • Lowesby (PDF, 2.27 MB)

  • Lubenham (PDF, 4.09 MB)

  • Medbourne (PDF, 3.8 MB)

  • Mowsley (PDF, 2.44 MB)

  • Nevill Holt (PDF, 2 MB)

  • North Kilworth (PDF, 4.13 MB)

  • Oswton (PDF, 2.51 MB)

  • Peatling Magna (PDF, 2.18 MB)

  • Peatling Parva (PDF, 3.05 MB)

  • Rolleston (PDF, 2.43 MB)

  • Saddington (PDF, 2.63 MB)

  • Shawell (PDF, 3.39 MB)

  • Shearsby (PDF, 2.95 MB)

  • Skeffington (PDF, 2.39 MB)

  • Slawston (PDF, 2.22 MB)

  • South Kilworth (PDF, 2.82 MB)

  • Stoughton (PDF, 6.09 MB)

  • Swinford (PDF, 3.4 MB)

  • Theddingworth (PDF, 2.76 MB)

  • Thorpe Langton (PDF, 2.29 MB)

  • Tilton on the Hill (PDF, 3.19 MB)

  • Tugby (PDF, 3.22 MB)

  • Tur Langton (PDF, 2.65 MB)

  • Walton (PDF, 2.99 MB)

  • Willoughby Waterleys (PDF, 2.68 MB)

• Site Selection Methodology Feb 2025

  • Site Selection Methodology (PDF, 492.46 KB)

  • Appendix 1: Settlement Profiles (PDF, 6.42 MB)

  • Appendix 2: Sties rejected not taken forward from the SHELAA (PDF, 142.69 KB)

  • Appendix 3: Sites rejected at Stage 3 (PDF, 3.07 MB)

  • Appendix 4: Stage 4 Technical Assessments (PDF, 14.73 MB)

  • Appendix 5: Sustainability Appraisal Accessibility Data (PDF, 350.1 KB)

  • Appendix 6: Large Strategic Sites Assessment (PDF, 853.32 KB)

• Harborough Renewable Energy Study

  • Harborough Renewable Energy Study (PDF, 7.96 MB)

• Sequential and Exception Test

  • Sequential and Exception Test (PDF, 459.7 KB)

  • Appendix 4 SFRA Level 2 Site Screening Summaries (PDF, 639.69 KB)

  • Appendix 6: SFRA Level 2 8054 site table (PDF, 946.88 KB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8143 site table (PDF, 1.45 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8155 site table (PDF, 1.12 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8234 site table (PDF, 1.41 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8241 site table (PDF, 1.18 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8247 site table (PDF, 1.12 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 10240 site table (PDF, 513.62 KB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 10248 site table (PDF, 1.02 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 10253 site table (PDF, 917.05 KB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 10595 site table (PDF, 1.06 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 10649 site table (PDF, 925.52 KB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 12231 site table (PDF, 2.02 MB)

  • Appendix 6 SFRA Level 2 8631 site table (PDF, 197.79 KB)

• Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Level 2

  • Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Level 2 (PDF, 2.15 MB)

  • Appendix B: Site Screening Summary (PDF, 343.29 KB)

• Leicestershire Local Transport Plan

  • Leicestershire Local Transport Plan (PDF, 2.97 MB)

• Local Plan Viability Report

  • Local Plan Viability Report (Redacted) (PDF, 9.24 MB)

• Local Plan Development Strategy Feb 2025

  • Local Plan Development Strategy Feb 2025 (PDF, 1.67 MB)

• Infrastructure Delivery Plan

  • Infrastructure Delivery Plan (PDF, 1.01 MB)

• Proposed Submission Draft Harborough Local Plan

  • Proposed Submission Draft Harborough Local Plan (PDF, 2.73 MB)

• Equalities Impact Assessment 2025

  • Equalities Impact Assessment 2025 (PDF, 482.73 KB)

• Sustainability Appraisal

  • Sustainabiltiy Appraisal (PDF, 12.13 MB)

  • Appendix A-B (PDF, 1.25 MB)

  • Appendix C (PDF, 11.98 MB)

  • Appendix D-E (PDF, 709.44 KB)

  • Appendix F (PDF, 12.36 MB)

  • Sustainability Appraisal Non-Technical Summary (PDF, 1.53 MB)

• Habitats Regulations Assessment Report

  • Habitats Regulations Assessment Report (PDF, 4.33 MB)

• Health Impact Assessment

  • Health Impact Assessment (PDF, 3.7 MB)

• Duty to Cooperate 2025

  • Duty to Cooperate (PDF, 1.12 MB)

• Regulation 18 Consultation Statement

  • Regulation 18 Consultation Statement (PDF, 906.69 KB)

• Leicester and Leicestershire Authorities - Statement of Common Ground June 2022

  • Leicester and Leicestershire Authorities - Statement of Common Ground June 2022 (PDF, 2.19 MB)