Borough of Darlington Local Plan

Introduction

The saved policies of the Borough of Darlington Local Plan are one element of the Development Plan for the Borough.  The Borough of Darlington Local Plan was adopted by the Council in November 1997. Alterations were adopted in September 2001 relating to land at Elm Tree Farm and Muscar House Farm, Whinfield.

The following policies and proposals expired on 27 September 2007, as a result of not being formally 'saved'. They should now be disregarded: E6, E19, E27, E28, E30, E31, E33, E35, E52, H6, H8, R10, R21, R22, S17, T2. 

The following additional policies have been superseded by adoption of the Local Development Framework Core Strategy and are grouped with those above as follows:

E1, E6, E7, E8, E10, E11, E15, E16, E17, E19, E23, E24, E25, E26, E27, E28, E29, E30, E31, E32, E33, E34, E35, E45, E46, E47, E48, E49, E50, E52, H1, H2, H3, H4, H6, H8, H9, H11, H14, H15, H16, H21, R1, R2, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, R10, R13, R17, R18, R19, R20, R21, R22, R24, R25, R26, EP1, EP5, EP13, EP14, EP15, EP16, E17, S1, S2, S12, S13, S14, S16, S17, S18,  TO1 – TO9, T1, T2, T3, T4, T12, T13, T16, T24, T25, T30, T31, T33, T34, T37, T38, T39, T45, T48, T53, T54

The Plan consists of a Written Statement and a Proposals Map (actually a set of maps).  The Written Statement sets out the policies and proposals of the Plan and the reasons for them.  The Proposals Map illustrates them on an Ordnance Survey base.

How to use the online Local Plan

  1. Click on Darlington Local Plan [external link]
  2. The Plan opens at the Proposals Map.  Click on the part of the Borough in which you are interested, or select an inset map from the drop-down menu.  The key ('legend') to the Map is in the left-hand frame.
  3. Clicking on the relevant part of the legend will take you to the text of the chosen policy or proposal in the Written Statement.
  4. You can view the Proposals Map and the Written Statement at the same time by clicking one of the "in new window" buttons.
    Alternately, at step 2 above, you can go directly to the Written Statement by clicking on the 'See Written Statement' button.  This will open the list of Contents.  Then click on the Contents to go to the relevant chapter.
For more background information, see The Development Plan for Darlington.