The St Cuthbert’s Garden Village (SCGV) Local Plan provides the vision, strategic objectives and planning policies to guide development within the garden village.

The Local Plan is a statutory document and will be used when assessing and making decisions on all future planning applications in the garden village plan area.

The Local Plan includes site allocations to allow for the delivery of over 10,000 new homes and supporting infrastructure. 

The natural environment is also key, with the Local Plan containing policies to ensure the areas created within and between the new communities are designed to the highest quality, delivered at the right time, and protected from future harm.   

The Local Plan makes provision for the required infrastructure needed to support the proposed level of development, and safeguards land required for this infrastructure. It provides a phasing plan, setting out what should be developed and by when to ensure that new homes are adequately served by green, community, transport, and utility infrastructure.