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Supplementary planning guidance and documents

What are SPGs and SPDs?
 The council has produced supplementary planning guidance (SPG) and supplementary planning documents (SPD) that provide additional policy guidance and amplifies upon the policies and proposals of the adopted UDP (or Plan for the Environment). They relate to topics, areas, and sites.

Supplementary planning documents (SPD) replace SPGs in the new planning system introduced under the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, 2004 and perform the same function.

All of the SPGs and SPDs listed below have been approved for use in considering planning applications. All have been through a full public participation process. The most recently completed documents are those identified as SPDs below.

When were they adopted?
The SPGs were adopted on 12 October 2004, except where indicated as draft. All the SPGs are used by the council in determining planning applications, although the adopted guidance has greater weight than the draft guidance. There is no SPG 11 or SPG 19. These were draft SPGs on affordable housing and community facilities, which have since been taken forward and adopted as supplementary planning documents.

The following supplementary planning documents (SPDs) were adopted on 29 March 2006:

The exception was was the community facilities document, which was revised and adopted on 19 June 2006.

The following sustainability appraisal reports were also published alongside these documents: Sustainability appraisal scoping and options report (word) and Sustainability appraisal draft final report (word). 

Please see the following adoption documents:

Draft supplementary planning documents (SPDs) on Legal Agreements, Planning Obligations and Planning Gain (SPD9) and Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings (SPD 10) were published in September 2007 but have not yet been adopted. These were subject to public consultation between 7 September and 19 October 2007 with the accompanying draft Sustainability Appraisal (pdf) and  Habitats Regulations Assessment (pdf) of the documents. An earlier Sustainability appraisal scoping report (word) for the SPD's was published in August 2006.

Where can I find the SPGs/SPDs?
The SPGs/SPDs are all available in pdf format and are listed below according to topics, areas and sites:

Topics

Ref     Guidance
SPG 1  Sustainability checklist
SPG 2  Water, drainage and flooding (draft)
SPG 3  Air quality (draft)
SPG 4  Refuse and recycling facilities
SPG 5  How to prepare an urban design statement
SPG 6  Plot ratio
SPG 7  Accessible Ealing
SPG 8  Safer Ealing  
SPG 9  Trees and development guidelines
SPG 10 Noise and vibration
SPG 12 Greening your home (draft)
SPG 13 Garden space
SPG 14 Indoor living space
SPG 15 Residential care homes
SPG 16 Hostels
SPG 17 Babycare facilities
SPG 18 Places for eating, drinking and entertainment  and advice notes
SPG 20 Sustainable transport: transport assessments
SPG 21 Sustainable transport: green travel plans
SPD 1  Affordable housing 
SPD 2  Community facilities
SPD 3  Low car housing in controlled parking zones
SPD 4  Residential extensions  
SPD 7  Car clubs
SPD 8  Crossovers and parking in front gardens
SPD 9  SPD9 Legal Agreements, Planning Obligations and Planning Gain (draft)
SPD10 SPD10 Conservation Areas and Listed Buildings (draft) 

Areas

Sites

Please note: The guidance notes on development sites supplement but do not override the policies in the Adopted 2004 Plan for the Environment. They apply selected policy criteria (such as plot ratio and density) to individual sites, but it may be that in considering a developer's detailed scheme, this ideal development potential cannot be achieved due to other polices in the plan. The above UDP sites are listed in Schedule 10.21 of the Adopted 2004 Plan for the Environment (UDP vol 2).

Are there plans to produce any further SPDs?
There are also plans to produce new SPDs on Affordable Housing (to replace SPD1) and Accessible Ealing (to replace SPG 7) together with new SPDs on Ealing Metropolitan Town Centre, Greenford Green and Shop Front Design. Full details including the timetables for adoption are provided in the Local Development Scheme  published in March 2010.