The IDP has a 10-year lifespan which is due to run out in November this year. And although the focused review process has started it has no chance of being finished by then, and so the Development & Planning Authority is asking for extra time – to the end of 2030.
Its report will be debated by the States at the end of June.
The DPA said that its resources were currently focused on updates to the IDP on housing and employment land supply.
Meanwhile, the Environment & Infrastructure Committee is readying itself for a structured consideration of the States Strategic Land Use Plan, which sets out the high-level planning policy for the island and dates back to 2011.
This is likely to be considered next year, and the DPA said it really needed to be completed first before the full review of the IDP was carried out. A planning inquiry has now concluded, with the inspector’s report with the DPA for consideration. Meanwhile it is prepared to make targeted amendments to the IDP before the full review is completed, which could happen as soon as this September, and is looking at streamlining the plan-making process, with ‘more proportionate pathways’ for reviewing and amending existing IDP policies.
The authority said the existing IDP continued to do its job, with policies performing generally as intended and continuing to deliver the priorities and aims of the States, offering ‘a robust policy framework and mechanisms’.
‘The DPA will remain responsive to the island’s planning needs during the extension period and can bring forward change if required,’ it said.
‘The DPA consider there are no significant implications to extending the life of the IDP as requested but there are significant material implications if the life of the plan is not extended.’
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