Submission and independent examination
Replacement Bridgend Local Development Plan (2018-2033) Examination
The Replacement LDP will be the subject of Examination by an independent Planning Inspector. This page contains links to key information about the preparation for and operation of the Examination of the LDP and will be updated as and when necessary.
The representations and responses to the Deposit LDP consultation exercise were endorsed by Cabinet on 19/07/22 and Full Council on 19/10/22 and the submission of the Plan for Examination was approved.
The Council submitted the Deposit LDP for examination on 25/10/22 to Welsh Government and Planning and Environment Decisions Wales, under section 64(1) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004.
Submission
The submission documents are listed below, each document has a unique reference number and link to the document.
The Planning and Environment Decisions Wales will now arrange for an Examination of the Plan to be held in early 2023 by an independent Planning Inspector. This will be organised by a Programme Officer, under instruction from the appointed Inspector(s).
Further details of the Examination will be published on the Hearing Sessions page as and when available.
Further details of the Examination will be published as and when available.
ED1 Letter - Participation in hearings
ED2 Guidance Notes for Participants
ED3 Council’s response to Preliminary Questions
ED4a Hearing Programme Version A
ED4b Hearing Programme Version B
ED4c Hearing Programme Version C
ED4d Hearing Programme Version D
ED4e Hearing Programme Version E
ED4f Hearing Programme Version F’
ED5 Schedule of Matters, Issues and Questions
ED7 Letter to Council 2/2/23 - Bridgend County Borough Council Response
ED8 Inspector’s Note - Productive and Enterprising Places – Employment and Infrastructure
ED9 Inspector’s Note 8/3/23/ - Response to Councils letter dated 15 February 2023.
ED9a Council's Response to Inspector’s Note dated 8-3-23
ED11 Inspector’s Note 06.11.23 – Updated Chapter 6 of PPW
ED11a Council Response to Inspectors Note 09.11.23 – Updated Chapter 6 of PPW (Agreed)
Designing Gypsy and Traveller Sites 2015
Designing Gypsy and Traveller sites
Development Plans Manual Edition 3 March 2020
Guidance For Outdoor Sport And Play
Future Wales The National Plan 2040
Building An Economic Development Evidence Base
Local development plans: guidance on economic development
National Transport Finance Plan 2015
National transport finance plan
One Wales The Wales Transport Strategy
Planning For Gypsy, Traveller & Showpeople Sites
Planning for Gypsy, Traveller and showpeople sites 2018
Planning Policy Wales Edition 10 2018
Planning Policy Wales Edition 11
Regional Technical Statement 2Nd Review Main Document
Regional Technical Statements for Aggregates 2nd Review - Clarification Letter
Regional Technical Statement 2Nd Review South Wales
Minerals Technical Advice Note (MTAN) Wales 1 Aggregates
Minerals Technical Advice Note (MTAN) Wales 2 Coal
Minerals technical advice notes (MTANs)
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 2 Planning And Affordable Housing 2006
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 3 Simplified Planning Zones 1996
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 4 Retail And Commercial Development 2016
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 5 Nature Conservation And Planning 2009
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 6 Planning For Sustainable Rural Communities 2010
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 7 Outdoor Advertisement Control 1996
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 10 Tree Preservation Orders 1997
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 11 Noise 1997
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 12 Design 2016
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 13 Tourism 1997
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 14 Coastal Planning 2021
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 15 Development And Flood Risk 2004
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 16 Sport, Recreation And Open Space 2009
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 18 Transport 2007
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 19 Telecommunications 2002
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 20 Planning And The Welsh Language 2017
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 21 Waste 2017
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 23 Economic Development 2014
Technical Advice Note (TAN) 24 The Historic Environment 2017
Towards Zero Waste. One Wales: One Planet
Submission Documents:
SD1 Deposit Replacement Local Development Plan – Written Statement
SD1a Replacement Local Development Plan – Written Statement (Proposed Submission Version)
Upload SD2 Deposit Replacement Local Development Plan – Proposals Map
SD2a Replacement Local Development Plan – Proposals Map (Proposed Submission Version)
SD3 Deposit Consultation Report Summary Document
SD4 Deposit Consultation Report
SD5 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 1 - Member of Public - Key Issues
SD6 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 2 - Member of Public - Growth Strategy
SD7 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 3 - Member of Public - Spatial Strategy
SD8 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 4 - Member of Public - Design and Placemaking
SD9 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 5 - Member of Public – Active, Healthy, Cohesive and Social Communities
SD10 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 6 - Member of Public - Employment
SD11 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 7 - Member of Public - Retail
SD12 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 8 - Member of Public - Renewable Energy
SD13 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 9 - Member of Public - Natural and Built Environment
SD14 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 10 - Member of Public - Maesteg and Llynfi Valley
Sd15 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 11 - Member of Public – Porthcawl and Pyle
SD16 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 12 - Member of Public - Ogmore and Garw Valley
SD17 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 13 - Member of Public - Bridgend and Pencoed
SD18 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 14 - Member of Public - Other Comments
SD19 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 15 - Borough Town Community Councillors - Consultation Responses
SD20 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 16 - Developers and Landowners - Consultation Responses
SD21 Deposit Consultation Report Appendix Volume 17 - Statutory Consultee and Other - Consultation Responses
SD22 Deposit LDP Representations Register Volume 1a
SD23 Deposit LDP Representations Register Volume 1b
SD24 Deposit LDP Representations Register Volume 2
SD25 Deposit LDP Representations Register Volume 3
SD26 Deposit LDP Representations Register Volume 4
SD27 Replacement LDP - Written Statement (Marked Changes Since Deposit Stage)
SD28 Schedule of Minor Changes to the Deposit Plan
SD29 Initial Consultation Report
SD29a Preferred Strategy Consultation Document (2019)
SD29b Preferred Strategy Representations
SD30 Candidate Site Register
SD31 Replacement LDP Delivery Agreement
SD32 Delivery Agreement Slippage, September 2022
SD33 Existing LDP (2013) Review Report
SD34 Background Paper 1: Vision and Objectives
SD35 Background Paper 2: Strategic Growth Options
SD36 Background Paper 3: Spatial Strategy Options
SD37 Background Paper 4: Housing Trajectory
SD38 Background Paper 5: Affordable Housing
SD39 Background Paper 6: Retail
SD40 Background Paper 7: Employment
SD41 Background Paper 8: M4 Junction 36
SD42 Background Paper 9: Compatibility of the Replacement LDP Objectives against the Bridgend Local Well-Being Plan
SD43 Background Paper 10: Compatibility Assessment of LDP Vision, Objectives & Strategic Policies against Well Being of Future Generations Act
SD44 Background Paper 11: Covid-19 Policy Review
SD45 Background Paper 12: Aggregate Safeguarding Assessment of Site Allocations
SD46 Background Paper 13: Rail Commuter Trips and Infrastructure
SD47 Background Paper 14: Minerals
SD48 Background Paper 15: Best and Most Versatile Agricultural Land
SD48 Background Paper 16: Development West of Pencoed Railway Line
SD49 Background Paper 17: NDF Conformity Assessment
SD50 Background Paper 18: Gypsy and Traveller Site Options
SD51 Background Paper 19: 20-Minute Neighbourhood
SD52 Background Paper 20: Biodiversity Net Benefit & New Development - A Case Study of Two Scales
SD53 Background Paper 21: Education Capacity
SD54 Background Paper 22: RLDP Conformity with the Placemaking Charter
SD55 Background Paper 23: RLDP Conformity with the National Sustainable Placemaking Outcomes
SD56 Background Paper 24: Strategic Transport Assessment
SD57 Allotment Audit (2022)
SD58 Bridgend County Borough Active Travel Maps (2022)
SD59 Bridgend Destination Management Plan 2018-2022
SD60 Bridgend Local Biodiversity Plan (2014)
SD61 Bridgend Smart Energy Plan (2019)
SD62 Bridgend Strategic Flood Consequences Assessment (2020)
SD63 Bridgend Strategic Flood Consequences Assessment Update (2022)
SD64 Candidate Sites Assessment Report (2022)
SD65 Carmarthen Bay, Gower & Swansea Bay Local Seascape Character Assessment (2017)
SD66 Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) Response to the Replacement Local Development Plan
SD67 Demographic Analysis and Forecasts Report (2019)
SD68 LDP Demographics Update Addendum (2020)
SD69 Economic Evidence Base Study (2019)
SD70 Economic Evidence Base Update (2021)
SD71 Equalities Impact Assessment of the Replacement Local Development Plan
SD72 Green Infrastructure Assessment (2022)
SD73 Green Wedge Review (2021)
SD74 Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment (2020)
SD75 Habitat Regulations Assessment
SD75a Pre Deposit Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Report
SD75b Initial Habitats Regulations Assessment Screening Report
SD76 Health Impact Assessment (2020)
SD77 Infrastructure Delivery Plan (2022)
SD78 Landscape Character Assessment for Bridgend County Borough (2013)
SD79 Local Housing Market Assessment (2021)
SD80 Outdoor Sport and Children’s Play Space Audit (2021)
SD81 Plan-Wide Viability Assessment (2021)
SD82 Potential Strategic Sites Independent Financial Viability Appraisals Report (2021)
SD83 Updated Financial Viability Appraisals Addendum - Strategic Sites (2022)
SD84 Renewable Energy Assessment (2019)
SD85 Retail Study (2019)
SD86 Retail Study Update (2022)
SD87 SA/SEA Scoping Report Initial Report Preferred Strategy
SD88 The Full Sustainability Appraisal of the Preferred Strategy
SD89 Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Scoping Report
SD90 The Full Sustainability Appraisal of the Deposit Plan and Non-technical Summary
SD90(a) SA of Candidate Sites & Infrastructure – Appendix G
SD91 Settlement Assessment Study (2019, revised 2021)
SD92 Settlement Boundary Review (2022)
SD93 Sites of Importance for Nature Conservtion Review (2020)
SD94 Special Landscape Designations (2010)
SD95 Strategic Transport Assessment (2022)
SD96 Tests of Soundness Self-Assessment (2022)
SD97 Urban Capacity Study (2022)
SD98 Position Statement, Census 2021
SD99 Statement of Common Ground, Bridgend County Borough Council and Natural Resources Wales, Porthcawl Waterfront
SD100 Statement of Common Ground, Bridgend County Borough Council and Welsh Water
SD101 Statement of Common Ground, Bridgend County Borough Council and National Grid
SD102 Statement of Common Ground, Bridgend County Borough Council and Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council
SD239 Statement of Common Ground, Bridgend County Borough Council and Vale of Glamorgan Council
SD240 Statement of Sub-Regional Collaboration, Minerals
SD241 Statement of Common Ground, Strategic Sites
Supporting Evidence for Proposed Allocations
SD105 Coney Beach Feasibility Study Report
SD106 Drainage Report
SD107 Ecological Assessment
SD108 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site A (1)
SD109 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site A (2)
SD110 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site A (3)
SD111 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site B - Appendices
SD112 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site B - Figures
SD113 Geo-Environment & Geotechnical Assessment Site B
SD114 Ground Investigation Factual Report
SD115 Landscape Visual Impact Assessment
SD116 Non-intrusive Unexploded Ordnance Study
SD117 Placemaking Strategy Capacity Study Report
SD118 Placemaking Strategy Report
SD119 Transport Statement
SD120 Utility Report
SD242a Porthcawl CPO
SD242b Statement of Reasons
SD242c CPO Plan
SD242d Press Site Notice
SD121 Agricultural Land Classification Supplementary Note
SD122 Drainage Strategy
SD123 Ecology Appraisal
SD124 Health Impact Assessment
SD125 Landscape Matters Note
SD126 Masterplan Report
SD126a Masterplan Report
SD127 Masterplan
SD128 Renewable Energy Strategy
SD129 Site Technical Supporting Statement
SD130 Summary of Site Investigations
SD131 Transport Strategic Appraisal
SD132 Transport Technical Note
SD133 Utility Report
SD134 Agricultural Land Classification Note
SD135 Air Quality Assessment Report
SD136 Arboricultural Baseline Note
SD137 Archaeological and Heritage Assessment Development Investigation Report
SD138 Archaeology and Heritage Assessment
SD139 Concept Plan Drawings
SD139(a) Concept Plan Drawings
SD140 Drainage Letter
SD142 Drainage Note
SD143 Ecology Report
SD143a – Ecology Briefing Note
SD144 Geoenvironmental and Geotechnical Desk study
SD145 Health Impact Assessment
SD146 Interim Residential Travel Plan
SD147 Laleston Meadows Site of Importance for Nature Conservation Habitat
SD148 Land Ownership and Control Statement
SD149 Landscape and Visual Appraisal
SD150 Masterplan
SD151 Open Space Technical Note
SD151(a) Open Space Technical Note
SD152 Proving Layout
SD153 Renewable Energy Statement
SD154 Site Technical Supporting Statement
SD155 Transport Assessment
SD156 Utilities Assessment
SD157 Utilities Executive Summary
SD158 Agricultural Land Classification Report
SD159 Agricultural Land Classification Supplementary Note
SD160 Drainage Strategy
SD161 Ecological Appraisal
SD162 Health Impact Assessment
SD163 Landscape Matters Supplementary Note
SD164 Masterplan and Proving Layout Report
SD165 Renewable Energy Strategy
SD166 Supporting Statement
SD167 Transport Assessment
SD168 Agricultural Land Classification Report
SD169 Archaeological Assessment
SD170 Drainage Strategy
SD171 Ecological Appraisal
SD172 Energy Strategy Report
SD170 Ground Investigation Review
SD171 Landscape and Visual Impact Assessment
SD172 Masterplan Report
SD173 Masterplan Supplementary Report - Density
SD174 Masterplan
SD175 Noise Technical Note
SD176 Proving Layout
SD177 Pyle Railway Crossings Summary Report
SD178 Renewable Energy Strategy
SD179 Transport Assessment
SD180 Tree Survey
SD182 Utility Report
SD182 Position Statement, Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge
SD183 Drainage Strategy
SD184 Ecology Appraisal
SD185 Health Impact Assessment
SD186 Landscape Technical Note
SD187 Masterplan Report
SD188 Masterplan
SD189 Renewable Energy Strategy
SD190 Site Technical Supporting Statement
SD191 Transport Strategic Appraisal
SD192 Transport Technical Note
SD193 Utility Strategy
SD194 Agricultural Land Classification Report
SD195 Air Quality Feasibility Study
SD196 Collective Transport Assessment - Junction 36 Impact
SD197 Connectivity Plan
SD198 Constraints Plan
SD199 Ecological Appraisal
SD200 Flood and Drainage Appraisal
SD201 Geo-environmental Desk Study
SD202 Landscape and Visual Assessment
SD203 Pedestrian and Cyclist Framework Plan
SD204 Proving Layout
SD205 Site Technical Supporting Statement
SD206 Statement of Common Ground - 3 Site Promoters
SD207 Statement of Common Ground - Welsh Water
SD208 Strategic Location Plan
SD209 Supplementary SA Analysis
SD210 Topographical Survey
SD211 Transport Appraisal
SD212 Tree Constraints Plan
SD213 Tree Survey
SD214 Utility Plan Provision
SD215 Collective Transport Assessment - Junction 36 Impact
SD216 Ecological Appraisal
SD217 Masterplan Report
SD218 Proving Layout
SD219 Statement of Common Ground - 3 Site Promoters
SD220 Statement of Common Ground - Welsh Water
SD221 Strategic Location Plan
SD222 Sustainability Plan
SD223 Transport Assessment
SD224 Archaeology and Heritage Baseline Report
SD225 Collective Transport Assessment - Junction 36 Impact
SD226 Drainage Strategy
SD227 Ecological Appraisal
SD228 Landscape and Visual Impact Appraisal
SD229 Location Plan
SD230 Masterplan Report
SD231 Proving Layout Narrative
SD232 Proving Layout
SD233 Statement of Common Ground - 3 Site Promoters
SD234 Statement of Common Ground - Welsh Water
SD235 Strategic Location Plan
SD236 Transport Assessment
SD237 Tree Constraints Plan
SD238 Tree Survey
SD243 Design and Access Statement
SD244 Transport Assessment
SD245 Overarching Travel Plan
SD246 Highways Technical Note
SD247 Typical Road Cross Sections
SD248 General Pedestrian Arrangement
SD249 Drainage Strategy Report
SD249a Drainage Strategy
SD250 Flood Consequences Assessment
SD251 Phase 1 Habitat Survey
SD252 Ecological Appraisal and Reptile Survey
SD253 Report on Site investigations
SD254 Site Investigations Report and Drawings
SD255 Site Remediation
SD256 Typical Site Sections
SD257 Archaeological Assessment
SD258 New Service Connections
SD259 Air Quality Assessment
SD260 Noise Impact Assessment
SD261 Planning Technical Note
SD262 Masterplan - Proving Layout
SD262a Masterplan - Updated Proving Layout
SD263 Masterplan - Land Use Parameters
SD264 Masterplan - Green Infrastructure Parameters
SD265 Masterplan - Access and Movement Parameters
SD266 Masterplan - Scale Parameters
SD267 SFCA Updated Site Appraisal Addendum