Consultations
We value your views and carry out public consultation as part of our planning and decision making process.
On this page you can see information about our current and recent consultations.
If you wish receive updates on the Broads Plan and Local Plan please contact us to be added to our consultation database.
Current consultations
1: The Local Plan for the Broads – Preferred Options Consultation
The Broads Authority has started the review of the Local Plan for the Broads. This is the second round of consultation and is called the Preferred Options. This version of the Local Plan includes draft policies for comment. Most of the policies are already included in the currently adopted Local Plan, albeit with some amendments. Some policies are new. We also talk about potential alternative options to the policies that are drafted. Finally, there is a call for sites for gypsy and traveller sites, residential moorings and residential dwellings.
We are holding three drop in events:
- Saturday 13 April, 10am - 1pm, Wroxham Church Hall (Norwich Road, Wroxham, Norwich NR12 8SA)
- Tuesday 30 April, 4pm - 8pm, Filby Village Hall (Main Road, Filby, Great Yarmouth, NR29 3HN)
- Wednesday 8 May, 5:30pm - 9pm, Beccles Blyburgate Hall (Blyburgate, Beccles, NR34 9TF)
Consultation documents:
- HTML version of the Preferred Options Local Plan
- PDF version of the Preferred Options Local Plan
- Summary of the policies (PDF)
- Call for sites form
- Interactive policies map (PDF versions can be found on the respective policy/site web pages of our online Local Plan)
- Preferred Options Sustainability Appraisal (PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal Literature Review (PDF)
- Sustainability Appraisal Baseline (PDF)
- Geodiversity Sustainability Appraisal Baseline (PDF)
- Preferred Options Habitats Regulation Assessment (PDF)
Please send comments to: planningpolicy@broads-authority.gov.uk
The deadline for comments is 4pm on 17 May 2024.
Hard copies of both consultation documents (Local Plan, SA and HRA, but not the policies maps) will be in these venues. Check venues for opening times.
- Libraries: Acle, Beccles, Brundall, Bungay, Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Loddon, Lowestoft, Oulton Broad, Norwich Millennium, Stalham and Wroxham.
- Council Offices: Broadland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, East Suffolk, Norfolk County and Suffolk County.
- Yare House, Norwich.
2: Validation Checklist
These are requirements that may be needed to validate a planning application and has been updated to reflect the need for Biodiversity Net Gain.
Please send comments to: planningpolicy@broads-authority.gov.uk
The deadline for comments is 4pm on 17 May 2024.
Hard copies of consultation documents will be in these venues. Check venues for opening times.
- Libraries: Acle, Beccles, Brundall, Bungay, Cromer, Great Yarmouth, Loddon, Lowestoft, Oulton Broad, Norwich Millennium, Stalham and Wroxham.
- Council Offices: Broadland, Great Yarmouth, North Norfolk, South Norfolk, East Suffolk, Norfolk County and Suffolk County.
- Yare House, Norwich.
Geldeston and Gilingham Neighbourhood Area Application Consultation
In accordance with the Neighbourhood Planning (General) Regulations 2012 (as amended), Geldeston Parish Council is making an application as the relevant body (Parish Council) on behalf of both Geldeston and Gillingham Parish Councils for the purposes of section 61G of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 to designate a Neighbourhood Area. This is required in order for both Parish Councils to produce a joint Neighbourhood Plan.
As the proposed Neighbourhood Area covers two civil parish boundaries, South Norfolk Council and the Broads Authority are undertaking a period of consultation on the proposed Geldeston and Gillingham Neighbourhood Area. See the Public Notice (PDF).
This consultation commences on Monday 15 April and closes at 5.00pm on Wednesday 29 May 2024.
If you wish to view and make comments on the proposed Neighbourhood Area, please visit the Neighbourhood Plan webpage on South Norfolk Council’s website: Geldeston and Gillingham Neighbourhood Plan – Broadland and South Norfolk.
You can submit your comments to neighbourhoodplans@southnorfolkandbroadland.gov.uk in order make a representation.
Alternatively, you can send a hard copy response to:
Place Shaping Team, South Norfolk Council, The Horizon Centre, Broadland Business Park, Peachman Way, Norwich, NR7 0WF
Please ensure your response is received by the Council before 5.00pm on Wednesday 29 May 2024.
If you experience any problems accessing this consultation material, please contact the Place Shaping Team on (01508) 533805.
Recent consultations
Draft Broads Recreation and Tourism Strategy 2024-29
This consultation was open to organisations, businesses and individuals with an interest in the impacts and benefits of the visitor economy in the Broads National Park.
A healthy and buoyant tourism sector is hugely important for this working landscape. In 2022 the area attracted 7.6 million visitors, contributing around £711 million to the local economy, supporting around 7,000 jobs. The strategy is intended to harness the opportunities that exist to maintain growth in a sustainable way.
The draft strategy has been prepared by the Broads Authority with valuable input from Visit the Broads, the main delivery partner of the strategy.
The deadline for responses was 5pm on Saturday 17 February 2024.
Local Plan Issues and Options
This was the first stage of the review of the adopted Local Plan.
This version does not include policies, but asked for thoughts on some topic areas and potential options.
The documents that were out for consultation can be found here:
- Issues and Options Local Plan (HTML version)
- Issues and Options Local Plan (PDF version)
- Sustainability Appraisal (SA) (PDF)
- SA Literature Review (PDF)
- SA Baseline (PDF)
- Habitats Regulation Assessment (PDF)
This consultation ran from 3 October to 4pm on 9 December 2022.