Preparation of the Replacement Plan. In preparing the Replacement LDP the Council will aim to achieve the following objectives:- • Facilitating Sustainable Development by preparing and monitoring the LDP through a process that integrates Sustainability Appraisal, (incorporating Strategic Environmental Assessment requirements), with plan making. 6 The end date for the current Plan in accordance with Section 62(3B) PCPA 2004, as amended 7 On adoption of the replacement plan the current plan will automatically cease to have effect. Section 62 (9) PCPA 2004, as amended, refers. • Basing the Replacement LDP production on early and effective community involvement, to consider a wide range of views, with the aim of building a broad consensus on the strategy and policies. • Ensuring policy integration by producing a Replacement LDP that is internally consistent and integrated with other main policies and strategies at national, regional and local level (without unnecessary repetition). • Delivering a fast and responsive approach to plan-making, with published timetables for preparation, fewer iterations of the plan before adoption, and regular strategic monitoring and review to enable plans to better reflect the changing circumstances in contemporary Wales. • Preparing a revised LDP that is strategic, concise and distinctive in setting out how Ceredigion will develop and change, based on a robust understanding of relationships between places, including across administrative boundaries, and drivers for change. • Delivery of sustainable development, taking account of infrastructure requirements, availability of resources, viability and market factors. The two key LDP documents are the Pre-Deposit and the Deposit Plans. The Pre Deposit document (also referred to as the Preferred Strategy) will contain: • the Preferred Strategy (including a Vision, strategic issues, aims and objectives, key policies, monitoring targets and indicators, broad locations for delivering sustainable development needs, and spatial interpretation of the strategy); The Deposit Plan will contain: • area-wide policies for development expressed generically where possible, including topic-based policies; • major allocations of land; • specific policies and proposals for key areas of change or protection; • succinct reasoned justification to explain policies and to guide their implementation; and • proposals map on a geographical base (with inset maps, where appropriate).
