Local Development Plans - Housing Strategy and Density

In preparing local development plans (LDPs) councils shall bring forward a strategy for housing, together with appropriate policies and proposals that must reflect the policy approach of the SPPS, tailored to the specific circumstances of the plan area. Planning authorities must deliver: • increased housing density without town cramming: higher density housing developments should be promoted in town and city centres and in other locations that benefit from high accessibility to public transport facilities. Within established residential areas it is imperative to ensure that the proposed density of new housing development, together with its form, scale, massing and