Planning Documents

Documents and contact details

GiGL uses planning documents for many purposes, such as in designated sites data validation and verification process. Because GiGL data are often used in planning and decision making, we use local planning documents to ensure that our London wide datasets of Sites of Importance for Nature Conservation and Public Open Space reflect current policies in each of London’s Local Planning Authorities, (LPAs). We also provide services to support creating some of these documents, such as Biodiversity Action Plans. We have helped many of our partner boroughs with these by modelling, analysing and visualising data.

Sometimes these documents can be hard to find and we have found it useful to keep a London wide record of them in one place. On this page we have collected the most recent planning documents for each Planning Authority in London. These include Local Plans, associated policy maps and biodiversity relevant supplementary planning documents or guidance (SPD or SPG), Biodiversity Action Plans and relevant strategies (e.g. Open Space Strategies, Green Infrastructure Strategies etc.) when available. In July 2024, we also added links to planning application requirements and validation checklists. This page also contains contact details for LPAs’ planning departments. For any questions about the content of these documents please contact the LPA. For any updates to the content of this list of documents, please contact Eleni Foui, GiGL’s Senior Partnership Officer (Planning).

The below information is available as a spreadsheet (upon request).

The table of documents was last updated in July 2024. 

Table of planning authority documents

Table of contact details

Additional Information

(1) Croydon’s Habitat action plans are their Biodiversity Action Plans

(2) Hillingdon’s Local Plan consists of Part 1, strategic policies (adopted 08/11/2012) and Part 2, Development Management Policies, Site Allocations and Designations and Policies Map (16/01/2020).
(3) Lewisham’s current local plan consist of Local Development Framework, which include Core Strategy (adopted June 2011), the Site Allocations Local Plan (adopted June 2013) and Development Management Local Plan (adopted Oct 2014).
(4) Merton’s current Local Plan consists of the Estates Local Plan (adopted in 2018), the Core Planning Strategy (adopted in 2011) and other documents.
(5) The Local Plan in Greenwich is part of the Local Development Framework and it consist of Core strategy (adopted 30 July 2014), policies map (below) and Site allocations (currently being prepared, final round of public consultation in early 2022).
(6) Kingston’s “Good Practice Guide – Biodiversity” is part of Green Spaces Strategy 2015 – 2021.