North Yorkshire Local Plan

Second Public Release of ‘Call for Sites’ Submissions (sites submitted up to and including 14th May 2025)

 

You will recall that we contacted you in January with regards to an important milestone in the preparation of the local plan for North Yorkshire (the emerging Local Plan covers all of North Yorkshire apart from those areas within the two National Parks of the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Dales). The ‘call for sites’ started in April 2024 when we invited landowners, site promoters and developers to submit sites for consideration as allocations in the local plan. These submissions are for a range of uses. The majority are for residential use with additional submissions for employment, retail, and so on.

 

The public facing map (Maptionnaire) has been updated so that it includes information on all registered sites (those considered a valid submission for assessment) submitted up to and including 14th May 2025. The sites information is available from the Call for Sites webpage which can be found using this link. The map allows you to move around the whole of North Yorkshire and see what sites have been submitted for consideration. By clicking on each site, you will see a brief description including the location, site size and the proposed uses that have been put forward by the site promoter.

Please note, we are not consulting on the release of the sites at this stage and are not currently accepting comments on them. We are making the information available to ensure greater levels of transparency and to allow you, the community and other interested parties the opportunity to have sight of the submitted sites as early as possible.

 

A comprehensive consultation will take place later that will seek the views of the community on all sites – at which stage further work will have been completed to give a greater direction as to whether such sites are likely to be recommended for allocation or dismissed. You will be able to share your views at that time.

 

If you have any queries on this, please do not hesitate to get in touch with a member of the Planning Policy & Place Team by contacting us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.   

 

Linda Marfitt

Head of Planning Policy and Place

North Yorkshire Council

Local Plans team

The consultation opened on Monday 19 May and will run until midnight on Tuesday 15 July.

 

This consultation is our first conversation on a new local plan for North Yorkshire. It is about the priorities and issues that the North Yorkshire Local Plan can help to address, and we are asking for views on those local plan priorities and issues, what the places and spaces across the North Yorkshire Local Plan area will be like in the future and the how the new local plan can influence that.

 

The consultation is being hosted on the Planning Policy Planning Policy Consultation Portal which can be accessed via the website The North Yorkshire Local Plan | North Yorkshire Council or through the current consultations page Current consultations | North Yorkshire Council . Following feedback we have updated the portal to ensure it is more accessible including embedding the link to the document and the how to complete a submission help video, within the first page.

 

Here the North Yorkshire Local Plan: our first conversation can be viewed either on the portal or the pdf downloaded to view or print off. 

 

Along with the consultation document there are the background/evidence-based documents

  • Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment
  • Settlement Hierarchy Background Paper

 

There is also the supporting information

  • What you need to know (FAQs)
  • How to Respond
  • Plan on a Page

 

While we encourage comments to be submitted by the portal, we will also accept comments via email and post.

 

In addition to the first conversation, we are consulting on the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report.  The Sustainability Appraisal is a systematic tool used to assess the relative sustainability of a plan/policy or project. 

 

Physical copies of the consultation documents, the North Yorkshire Local Plan: our first conversation and the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report are available to view in the Council offices and libraries across North Yorkshire (excluding those in the National Parks who have their own local plans).   

 

If you have any queries or questions, please contact the Planning Policy team via our dedicated mailbox This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via phone on 0300 131 2 131

 

Kind regards,  

 

Planning Policy Team

 

North Yorkshire Council

 

Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Web: www.northyorks.gov.uk

Telephone: 0300 131 2 131

 

 

 

 

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