Category: Local plan
-
Ladywood and the Local Plan
In the 2024 document, Ladywood is designated as its own distinct Growth Zone under Policy GZ11 (Ladywood Regeneration Initiative Growth Zone). In 2025, the approach changes, with Ladywood reclassified as a Housing Regeneration Area (HRA). The HRA designation is formalised under Policy HN9 (Housing Regeneration) in the current 2026 document. The 2024 document proposed the…
-
Local plan: community led-development, protecting existing housing and the new local plan
Approaches to regeneration The 2026 Plan appears to have become less prescriptive about how regeneration and housing delivery should take place, particularly in relation to mechanisms for securing community benefits and supporting alternative models of development. This is significant because some of the provisions contained in earlier versions of the Plan have either been removed…
-
Local Plan: will reducing affordable housing threshold result in more social housing?
The 2026 Local Plan now under consultation is broadly in continuity with the 2024 proposal to lower the required affordable housing threshold. The policy uses a value-zone approach: the City Centre is the core zone; there is a higher-value zone covering the southern part of the City Centre and the northern part of the city;…
Ladywood Unite 