Guidance

Local plans: monitoring progress (legacy system)

The Planning Inspectorate maintains a list of the overall position for each LPA and a list of local plan examination hearing dates we are holding over the next few months

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Published: 1 January 2012
• Last updated: 17 September 2026
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  1. 17 September 2026

     Portsmouth 06 October added to the hearing list

  2. 14 September 2026

     Local plans examination hearing dates information updated

  3. 17 August 2026

     Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies data updated

  4. 11 August 2026

     Local plans examination hearing dates updated

  5. 20 July 2026

     (legacy system) added to the title

  6. 13 July 2026

     Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.

  7. 3 July 2026

     Tower Hamlets Local Plan 07/07/2026 hearing has been postponed

  8. 10 June 2026

     Plans containing strategic policies , Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local plans examination hearing dates updated

  9. 8 May 2026

     Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.

  10. 8 April 2026

      Plans and hearing dates documents updated

  11. 12 March 2026

      Plans updated for March 2026

  12. 5 February 2026

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  13. 8 January 2026

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  14. 15 December 2025

      Wolverhampton Local Plan opening hearing was due to start tomorrow 16/12 but has been postponed, new date to be confirmed.

  15. 11 November 2025

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  16. 5 November 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  17. 9 October 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  18. 8 September 2025

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  19. 7 August 2025

      Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  20. 4 August 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  21. 9 July 2025

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  22. 9 June 2025

      Plans containing non-strategic policies, Local Plan examination hearing dates and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  23. 8 May 2025

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies documents updated

  24. 2 May 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  25. 7 April 2025

      Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  26. 4 April 2025

      LPA hearing dates updated

  27. 17 February 2025

      Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated with February 2025 data

  28. 10 February 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  29. 8 January 2025

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  30. 7 January 2025

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated with January 2025 data

  31. 10 December 2024

      Hearing dates added for Enfield local plan

  32. 10 December 2024

      Latest hearing dates added. Table updated to reorder most recent at top.

  33. 7 November 2024

      The following have been updated: Plans containing strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing strategic policies - HTML attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - HTML attachment

  34. 8 October 2024

      Latest data updated for 'Plans containing strategic policies' and 'Plans containing non-strategic policies'

  35. 25 September 2024

      'list of local plan examination hearing dates' updated.

  36. 11 September 2024

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  37. 8 August 2024

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  38. 5 July 2024

      Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  39. 12 April 2024

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  40. 13 March 2024

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  41. 22 January 2024

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  42. 7 November 2023

      Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  43. 16 October 2023

      All attachments have been updated.

  44. 8 August 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies have been updated

  45. 7 July 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies -and Plans containing strategic policies updated

  46. 9 June 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  47. 13 April 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates all updated with latest data

  48. 20 March 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated with March 2023 data

  49. 27 February 2023

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  50. 1 December 2022

      A hearing date for for Blackburn & Darwin has been added to the Local Plan examination dates.

  51. 14 November 2022

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  52. 10 November 2022

      Local Plan examination hearing dates data updated

  53. 13 October 2022

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  54. 5 September 2022

      Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

  55. 10 August 2022

      Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  56. 12 July 2022

      Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  57. 6 July 2022

      Warrington and Barking and Dagenham added to the local plan hearing dates

  58. 1 June 2022

      Updated with hearing dates for Cornwall Council's Climate Emergency DPD examination.

  59. 12 May 2022

      Hearing dates added, plans containing strategic and plans containing non-strategic updated.

  60. 7 April 2022

      Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.

  61. 7 March 2022

      Plans containing strategic policies updated for March 2022. No update to the Plans containing non-strategic policies.

  62. 1 March 2022

      East Northants hearing details added

  63. 23 February 2022

      Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

  64. 17 February 2022

      A list of Local Plan Examination hearing dates the Planning Inspectorate is holding over the next few months has been added

  65. 14 February 2022

      Plans containing strategic policies updated.

  66. 8 October 2021

      Plans containing strategic policies updated

  67. 2 September 2021

      Plans containing strategic policies list updated

  68. 9 August 2021

      July data added to the strategic plan sheet

  69. 26 July 2021

      July 2021 data added

  70. 1 January 2012

      First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Local plans examination hearing dates

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Plans containing strategic policies

HTML

Plans containing strategic policies

MS Excel Spreadsheet, 51.3 KB

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Plans containing non-strategic policies

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Details

If you have a question about the timing of the publication, submission or adoption of a local plan, please contact the relevant LPA directly.

Local Authorities should contact the Local Plans team at plans.admin@planninginspectorate.gov.uk if they wish for an out-of-date entry to be removed from the list.