The reading list behind the reading list

The 450 page plan is not the whole story. It relies on 17 appendices and an evidence base published as separate documents, and the plan expects you to read it alongside them. This page lists what they are, in plain English, and where to find them.

Each appendix below is named by the plan itself (its own list sits on the final page of the document). None of them is inside the 450 pages, and none of the reading time estimates on our 46 days page includes them.

• Appendix A: Monitoring Framework How the council will measure whether the plan is delivering what it promises, and what triggers action if it is not.
• Appendix B: Glossary Definitions of the planning terms used throughout the plan.
• Appendix C: Schedule of saved and replaced policies Which policies from the old district plans are replaced by this plan, and which survive.
• Appendix D: Policies Map The map showing exactly where each policy and site allocation applies.
• Appendix E: Housing Strategy Tables The tables behind the housing numbers: how the 91,287 homes are distributed.
• Appendix F: Housing Trajectory Year by year expectations for how many homes will be built, and where, across the plan period.
• Appendix G: Gypsy and Traveller Trajectory How the pitches and plots required by Policy SP3 are expected to be delivered over time.
• Appendix H: Employment Trajectory How the employment land required by Policy SP4 is expected to come forward over time.
• Appendix I: Parking Standards How much parking new development must provide.
• Appendix J: Design Code The design rules new development is expected to follow.
• Appendix K: List of small housing allocations The smaller housing sites allocated by the plan, below the size covered in the main document.
• Appendix L: List of Strategic and Key Employment Areas The employment sites the plan protects for business use.
• Appendix M: ANGST standards Accessible Natural Greenspace Standards: how far homes should be from usable green space.
• Appendix N: Biodiversity Net Gain delivery How development must leave nature measurably better off, and how that is delivered.
• Appendix O: Health Care Contributions What developers must contribute towards healthcare capacity.
• Appendix P: Accessible Space Standards Standards for accessible and adaptable homes.
• Appendix Q: Ecological Enhancement Features Features such as bird and bat boxes that developments are expected to include.

Where to find them

The appendices and the evidence base are published on the council’s Local Plan pages and alongside the plan in the official consultation portal. If a policy you care about leans on an appendix (many do), open the appendix before you respond: soundness arguments usually live in the evidence, not the policy wording.