7 Development Plan · 7.2 Preparing a development plan

7.2.6 Structure plans and local plans: the UK system and its Indian application

Britain's 1968 reform split plan-making into a strategic structure plan (policies plus a key diagram for a wide area) and detailed local plans (site proposals on a map), a two-tier idea that Indian planning echoes in perspective, regional and zonal plans above detailed DPs, local area plans and TP schemes.

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Key terms

  • structure plan
  • local plan
  • key diagram
  • written statement
  • Planning Advisory Group
  • Future of Development Plans
  • Town and Country Planning Act 1947
  • Town and Country Planning Act 1968
  • unitary development plan
  • Planning and Compensation Act 1991
  • Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004
  • Localism Act 2011
  • Skeffington
  • perspective plan
  • zonal development plan

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  5. Common trapsFoundation
  6. Quick revisionFoundation

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