Ashford Adopted Local Plan To 2030

What is the Local Plan 2030?

Local plans must be consistent with national policy but can also take on board local planning issues. The Ashford Local Plan 2030 sets out the land that needs to be provided in the borough to accommodate new homes and jobs up to 2030. It contains a number of sites across the borough proposed for development as well as establishing planning policies and guidance to ensure local development is built in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. This plan is used, alongside others in the development plan, to determine all types of planning applications including new houses and extensions.

The Ashford Local Plan 2030 was adopted in February 2019 and now forms the main statutory development plan for the borough.

Download the Local Plan 2030 (Adopted 2019) [pdf] 20362KB

The Adopted Local Plan Proposals Map shows the site allocations and all designations of the borough

Affordable Housing – June 2019 advice note

The viability study carried out to provide the evidence for Policy HOU1 – Affordable Housing, used data based on the ward areas prior to the May 2019 parish and ward boundary changes. For this reason the map on page 198 of the Local Plan largely reflects the ward boundaries of the borough at submission of the plan. The policy supporting text also lists the wards included in each of the affordable housing viability zones.

The boundary amendments that came in at the May elections brought about a number of changes to the boundaries of the urban wards. This means that ward boundaries may now not match the viability zone boundaries. For example, the Victoria ward has been enlarged to include what was part of Godinton, and where previously all of Victoria ward was in Zone A (Ashford Town), it now contains areas that are in Zone B (Ashford Hinterlands).

Therefore for the purpose of applying HOU1, you should rely only on the map layer online and not the list of wards in the policy supporting text.

If you need confirmation on whether a site is within Zone A, B or C then please contact the Planning Policy team on 01233 330229.

Village Confines

Following adoption of the Local Plan 2030 windfall housing policies HOU3a and HOU5, some village confines boundaries have been adopted as informal guidance.