§ Baroness Scott of Needham Marketasked Her Majesty's Government:
Further to the Written Answer by the Lord Falconer of Thoroton on 18 January (WA 182–183), which were the 21 counties that took five years or more to adopt revised structure plans; and which of these left an insufficient interval for their district councils to prepare the necessary plans for their areas. [HL2488]
§ Lord Falconer of ThorotonThe 21 counties which took five years or more to adopt a revised plan56WA following the last round of regional planning guidance reviews are detailed below. Any protracted period of preparation would have either correspondingly delayed the respective district authorities from advancing their local plans to adoption or meant adoption of plans not in general conformity with the structure plan. Information on the impact of the delay to each individual district is not available centrally.
Counties Bournemouth, Dorset and Poole Norfolk Cumbria North Yorkshire Derbyshire Northamptonshire Durham Shropshire East Sussex Somerset & Exmoor National Park Essex Staffordshire/Stoke on Trent Former Avon Area Warwickshire Gloucestershire West Sussex Hampshire Wiltshire Leicestershire Worcestershire Lincolnshire