As part of the new planning process, councils must submit an annual report to their Government Office setting out 3 key aspects of work on Local Development Frameworks:

1) Progress against the Local Development Scheme programme
2) Monitoring key indicators (known as Core Output Indicators), including housing completions
3) Analysis of policy implementation, highlighting where policy changes may be required

This document, called an Annual Monitoring Report (AMR), analyses and monitors progress and policies during the financial year (1 April to 31 March) and must be submitted to the Government Office by the following 31 December once it has been approved by Committee.

The Annual Monitoring Report will identify where changes are required to existing adopted policies, and therefore is linked to the review of the Local Development Scheme, which sets out what planning policy documents are to be produced and when.  Should the Annual Monitoring Report highlight a need for a policy, or a number of policies, to be revised, this could lead to a change in the programming of future policy documents.

The Most recent Annual Monitoring Reports that have been produced by the Council are available to view below: