The Broads Authority is consulting on two documents.

Both documents can be found here: Consultations (broads-authority.gov.uk)

Send comments to: [email protected]

The deadline for comments is 4pm on 17 May 2024.

Hard copies of both consultation documents will be in these venues. Check venues for opening times. These are being delivered over the week starting 25/3.

• Libraries: Acle, Beccles, Brundall, Bungay, Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Loddon, Lowestoft, Oulton Broad, Norwich Millennium, Stalham and Wroxham.

• Council Offices: Broadland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, East Suffolk, Norfolk County and Suffolk County.

• Yare House, Norwich.

1: The Local Plan for the Broads – Preferred Options

The Broads Authority has started the review of the Local Plan for the Broads. This is the second round of consultation and is called the Preferred Options.  This version of the Local Plan includes draft policies for comment. Most of the policies are already included in the currently adopted Local Plan.  Some policies have been amended and some are new. We also talk about potential alternative options to the policies that are drafted. Finally, there is a call for sites for gypsy and traveller sites, residential moorings and residential dwellings.

We are holding three drop in events:

• Saturday 13 April, 10am – 1pm, Wroxham Church Hall.

• Tuesday 30 April, 4pm – 8pm, Filby Village Hall.

• Wednesday 8 May, 5:30pm – 9pm, Beccles Blyburgate Hall.

Policies maps available on line only. An interactive map is available here: https://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/planning/local-plan-online-map

Call for sites form can be found here: https://arcg.is/LGeP50

2: Validation Checklist

These are requirements that may be needed to validate a planning application and has been updated to reflect the need for Biodiversity Net Gain.