Local Plan Update Proposed Submission Plan Consultation (Regulation 19)
IMPORTANT: If you are taking the survey at the bottom of this page, you will need to have completed and submitted it before the 5PM deadline on Wednesday, 13 November.
If you start the survey but do not finish before then, you will not be able to complete or submit it.
Wokingham Borough Council is in the process of preparing a new local plan – the Local Plan Update.
This sets out the planning policies the council will use to manage development across the borough. Once adopted, it will replace the policies set out in the council’s current local plans.
The council has now published the next version of the plan, known as the Proposed Submission Plan (Regulation 19), for comment.
Publication
The Proposed Submission Plan and all supporting documents may be viewed on our website.
A selection are also listed for viewing below.
- Proposed Submission Plan (PDF)
- Policies map A1 (PDF)
- Policies map B1 (PDF)
- Policies map B2 (PDF)
- Policies map C1 (PDF)
- Policies map C2 (PDF)
- Policies map D1 (PDF)
- Policies map D2 (PDF)
- Policies map D3 (PDF)
- Policies map layer key (PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal (SA) non-technical summary (PDF)
- Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA) Report (PDF)
How to make comments
At this stage, comments are invited on the Proposed Submission Plan within the remit of legal compliance and the tests of soundness, as set out in national planning policy.
These tests form the basis against which the plan is assessed at examination.
Anyone wishing to respond is strongly advised to read the guidance notes on making representations, which provide more detail on these matters.
Submission of representations using the online form is strongly encouraged. However, a representation form is also available.
This can be filled in and emailed to LPU@wokingham.gov.uk or printed and posted to: Local Plan Update, Planning Policy, Wokingham Borough Council offices, Shute End, Wokingham, Berkshire RG40 1BN.
Representations received after 5PM on Wednesday 13 November 2024 will not be accepted, nor will any anonymous comments.
Phases
Issues and options consultation
The Issues and Options stage was the first stage of consultation on the plan, opening the discussion about what the local plan should contain. We asked a number of questions about different planning issues that should be dealt with in the update and what you saw as the future for Wokingham Borough.
You can see the main issues for each topic raised in the document below:
We also asked for your comments on a Sustainability Appraisal/Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA/SEA) alongside this.
At this stage we also consulted on a Habitats Regulations Assessment (HRA). The aim of the HRA is to identify any aspects of the emerging local plan that would have the potential to cause a likely significant effect on Natura 2000 or European sites (special Areas of Conservation (SACs), Special Protection Areas (SPAs) and Ramsar sites) either in isolation or in combination with other plans and projects and begin to identify appropriate mitigation strategies where such effects are identified.
The report consulted on considered broad factors and issues relating to the Issues and Options stage.