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Supplementary Planning Guidance

Following adoption of the JLDP, the Council is in the process of preparing a suite of topic based Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG). SPGs expand on the policy principles contained within the JLDP and offers guidance to applicants and Officers when assessing planning applications.

The following document provides further guidance in relation to the Process of preparing Supplementary Planning Guidance:-

Supplementary Planning Guidance (Adopted)

The following Guidance have been subject to a public consultation period and have been adopted by the Joint Planning Policy Committee.

Supplementary Planning Guidance
Guidance NameDocuments
Supplementary Planning Guidance: Managing the Use of Dwellings as Holiday Homes (Second Homes and Short-term lets)Supplementary Planning Guidance - Managing the use of dwellings as holiday homes

SEA Screening Statement
Public Consultation Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Housing Mix (October 2018)Supplementary Planning Guidance – Housing Mix

Supplementary Planning Guidance – Housing Mix – Representation Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Housing Mix – Screening Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Open Spaces in New Housing Developments (March 2019)Supplementary Planning Guidance - Open Spaces in New Residential Developments
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Open Spaces in New Housing Developments - Representation Report

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Open Spaces in New Housing Developments - Screening Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Local Market Housing (March 2019)Supplementary Planning Guidance - Local Market Housing 
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Local Market Housing - Representation Report

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Local Market Housing - Screening Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Affordable Housing (April 2019)Supplementary Planning Guidance - Affordable Housing

Addendum - Appendix 4 - 2021 Figures

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Affordable Housing - Representation Report

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Affordable Housing - Screening Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Replacement dwellings and conversions in the countryside (September 2019)Supplementary Planning Guidance – Replacement dwellings and conversions in the countryside
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Replacement dwellings and conversions in the countryside – Consultation report

Supplementary Planning Guidance – Replacement dwellings and conversions in the countryside – Screening report
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Planning ObligationsSupplementary Planning Guidance - Planning Obligations
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Planning Obligations - Screening Report

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Planning Obligations - Consultation Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Maintaining and Creating Distinctive and Sustainable CommunitiesMaintaining and Creating Distinctive and Sustainable Communities July 2019

Maintaining and Creating Sustainable Communities - Representation Report

Maintaining and Creating Sustainable Communities - Screening Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Change of use of community facilities and services, employment sites and retail unitsSupplementary Planning Guidance - Change of use of community facilities and services, employment sites and retail units

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Representation Report

Supplementary Planning Guidance - Screening report
Supplementary Planning Guidance- Tourism Accommodation and FacilitiesSupplementary Planning Guidance- Tourism Accommodation and Facilities (final)

Supplementary Planning Guidance- Tourism Accommodation and Facilities - Screening Statement

Supplementary Planning Guidance- Tourism Accommodation and Facilities - Final Consultation Report
Supplementary Planning Guidance – Slate Landscapes of North West WalesSupplementary Planning Guidance – Slate Landscapes of North West Wales
Supplementary Planning Guidance - Slate Landscapes of North West Wales - Consultation Report

Together with the Councils decision to adopt the JLDP it was decided that the Supplementary Planning Guidance which had been adopted to support the previous Unitary Development Plan should remain, where appropriate, as material planning consideration in determining planning applications, until they are replaced by a new SPG or withdrawn.

The following Supplementary planning Guidance are of relevance when deciding on planning application in the Gwynedd Local Planning Authority Area:-