Draft Sheffield Local Plan

We are working on a new draft Sheffield Local Plan that will guide the future of the city by setting out how and where development will take place up to 2039. We are calling it the ‘Sheffield Plan’ and, once it has been adopted, it will replace the Sheffield Core Strategy (2009) and ‘saved’ policies in the Sheffield Unitary Development Plan (1998). Refer to Adopted Sheffield Local Plan for more information about the Core Strategy and Unitary Development Plan. The Draft Sheffield Plan, together with amendments proposed by the City Council, was approved by the Council for submission to the Government on 6 September 2023. The Draft Plan was submitted on 6 October 2023. The next stage will be a Public Examination conducted by independent, Government-appointed Planning Inspectors.