Draft Island Planning Strategy
A new local plan called the Island Planning Strategy
Overview
The council is in the process of preparing a new local plan called the Island Planning Strategy. We submitted this plan to government in October 2024.
The Government appointed Planning Inspectors in November 2024 and they held two weeks of examination hearings into the content of the new plan in late February / early March 2025.
In April 2025, the Planning Inspectors sent a letter to the council saying they required the council to make changes to the Island Planning Strategy carried out to address some concerns they had.
In May 2025, the council decided to carry out that further work and the Planning Inspectors then paused the formal examination process for 6 months to allow the council to do the work.
All details about the progress of the examination can be found on the dedicated IPS examination web pages.
Public consultation in late 2025 / early 2026
In November 2025, the council agreed a package of proposed changes to the draft Island Planning Strategy to address the concerns of the Planning Inspectors. These changes were agreed at a meeting of Full Council.
Consultation on proposed changes to the Island Planning Strategy - December 2025
A 6 week period of public consultation will take place on the proposed changes (not the rest of the Island Planning Strategy) and this will start on Monday 1 December 2025 at 9 am and finish on Monday 12 January 2026 at 5pm.
After the consultation has finished, the council will send the proposed changes, and all of the comments made during the consultation, back to the Planning Inspectors.
The Planning Inspectors will then ‘re-start’ the formal examination process and consider whether they agree with the changes.
Details and how to comment will be on this page.