Planning your future
The Sustainable
Community Strategy sets out the council’s vision for Watford to be: “A town to
be proud of, where people will always chose to live, work and visit.
In seeking to deliver
this vision the council is preparing a new type of Local Plan. This will
replace the existing Watford District Plan 2000 with a new suit of planning
documents, the first of which is the Core Strategy which sets out in broad
terms how we will deliver 6,500 homes and 7,000 jobs between 2006 and 2031, along
with other supporting services and facilities. The plan sets out broad
locations for new development and establishes the direction for other documents
that will set out our planning strategy and policies in more detail – all other
Local Plan documents will be consistent with the Core Strategy.
In line with the
National Planning Policy Framework the Core Strategy promotes sustainable
development. It requires development to be designed in line with the principles
in the Building Futures Guide and the master planning tools in BREEAM communities.