The Council has been undertaking a Partial Review of its existing Local Plan known as the Local Plan Partial Review. 

Inspector's Report into LPPR Examination

The Council received the Inspector’s Report into the examination of the Local Plan Partial Review (LPPR) on 31 July 2019. The Inspector found the policies ‘sound’ subject to his "Main Modifications" appended to his report. In addition to the Inspector’s Main Modifications, the Council has also produced "Minor" or "Additional" modifications to update factual matters and improve clarity of text. All of these documents can be found on the links below. You can find more information on the Local Plan web page.

The LPPR was adopted at a Full Council meeting on 11 September 2019.

• Inspector's Report on the Examination of LPPR, 31 July 2019
• Inspector's Main Modifications (appended to the Inspector's Report), 31 July 2019
• LPPR Publication Policies, February 2017 (to be read alongside the Consolidated Table of Modifications below)
• Consolidated Table of Modifications, August 2019

Proposed Main Modifications Consultation (Closed)

The Council consulted on the Proposed Main Modifications (23 July to 17 September 2018) necessary to address the soundness of the LPPR. These modifications were discussed at the hearings and are referred to in the Inspector's Interim Findings Letter.  The Inspector considered all representations made on the proposed main modifications before reaching any final conclusions on the LPPR and completing his examination report. Collated consultation responses can be found below (responses as submitted can be found on the Proposed Main Modifications Responses page).

Schedule of Main Modifications (pdf)

Integrated Impact Assessment Addendum, July 2018 (pdf)

Consultation Responses Schedule - Proposed Main Modifications (pdf)

Questionnaire Responses - Proposed Main Modifications (pdf)

Supplementary Statement from RBKC on Housing Land Supply

Following the close of the hearings, the Inspector received a supplementary statement from the Council in respect of 5 year housing land supply in the Local Plan Partial Review (LPPR).  A copy of the statement is attached.  Stakeholders were given until 30 April to comment. The representations received are included below.  

EX025 Response from House Builders Federation

EX026 Response from Kensington Society

EX027 Response from the GLA

Inspector

Mike Hayden BSc(Hons) DipTP MRTPI was appointed as the Inspector to conduct the examination.

Submission and Hearings

On Friday 5 May 2017 the Council submitted the Local Plan Partial Review and supporting documents to the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government for independent examination by the Planning Inspectorate.

Regulation 22 Statement of Submission

The Inspector held a series of public examination hearings on 27^th and 28^th February, and the 1^st, 2^nd, 15^th and 16^th March 2018, which were held at the Small Hall, Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London, W8 7NX. 

The programme for the hearings, the issues discussed at each hearing session, the Inspector’s list of the matters, issues and questions for the examination and a guidance note for participants can be found in the Table of Examination Documents below.

Previous consultations

Whilst this webpage is being hosted on the Council's Planning Policy Consultations website, it is not a 'normal' consultation. The Council has previously considered consultation feedback on  'Issues and Options' (1st stage), 'Draft Policies' (2nd stage) and 'Publication Policies' (3rd stage).

Consultation responses received at the Publication Policies (3rd stage) have been submitted to the Planning Inspectorate. It is for the Inspector to consider these comments and to request further statements from respondents as he thinks fit.

Further Proposed Modifications (11 October 2017)

In light of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017 and in response to petitions from the local community in North Kensington, the Council decided to suspend current estate regeneration projects in the borough and propose some changes called 'Further Proposed Modifications' (CED004) to the Local Plan Partial Review.  The Inspector agreed to pause the examination of the Partial Review and postpone the hearings (which will now take place in late February/early March 2018 as set out above) to enable the Council to prepare changes to the Plan. This was confirmed in examination document IED002 Letter from the Programme Officer - Postponement of Hearings. A number of the submitted evidence base documents have also been updated which are available from the Document Index below, dated October 2017.

Essentially, the Further Proposed Modifications propose to:

• Delete Site Allocation CA2 Barlby-Treverton;
• Delete Site Allocation CA5 Silchester Estates and Chapter 7 Latimer;
• Delete Site Allocation CA8 Warwick Road Estate;
• Revert emerging new Policy CH5 Estate Regeneration back to the existing adopted Local Plan Policy CH4/5 Estate Renewal.
• Make consequential amendments arising from the above; and
• Commit the Council to an early review of the Local Plan, at least in part, to consider issues related to North Kensington, the Latimer 'Place', estate regeneration and housing supply, to be adopted within five years of the Local Plan Partial Review's adoption. This would be expected to commence some time in 2018 and be undertaken in accordance with the Council's commitment that any future estate regeneration projects would be co-designed with the community and put to a binding vote.

Document Index

Table of Examination documents

Documents arising from the examination will be uploaded here as the examination progresses.

Responses to Inspector's Matters, Issues and Questions (MIQs)

The Council's response, supporting documents and the responses received from stakeholders to the Inspector's MIQs are set out in the table below.

Submission documents

The documents submitted to the Planning Inspectorate are listed below.

Call for Further Participants (11 October - 17 November 2017)

It is normally the case in law that only those people who responded to the Publication Policies consultation (February to March 2017) are able to participate formally in the examination.

However, in light of the Further Proposed Modifications mentioned above, the Inspector and the Council agreed to invite further Participants with an interest in the Further Proposed Modifications to take part in the examination, through written statements and/or through participation in the oral hearings. 

The 'Call for Further Participants closed on 17 November 2017. The responses received have been collated and can be viewed by following the links below -

• Responses to the ‘Call for Further Participants’
• Summary of Responses

Guidance

National guidance on Local Plan examinations is provided below:

• National Planning Practice Guidance (NPPG): Local Plans: Publication and examination of a Local Plan (DCLG, March 2014 / May 2016)
• Procedural Practice in the Examination of Local Plans, 4th Edition (Planning Inspectorate, June 2016)

This consultation has now closed.