Last Updated: 14 July 08Supporting Sustainable Development

Planning Policy Statement 11

PPS 11 relates to Regional Spatial Strategies for planning

Communities and Local Government page for Planning Policy Statement 11

PPS 11 Documents
Document Publication Date Description
PPS11 7 September 2004 PPS11 sets out the procedural policy on the nature of Regional Spatial Strategies (RSSs) and focuses on what should happen in preparing revisions to them and explains how this relates to the Act and associated regulations.
Regional Spatial Strategy Monitoring: A Good Practice Guide December 2005 Regional Spatial Strategy Monitoring: A Good Practice Guide - updates guidance on the development and reporting of monitoring frameworks for regional spatial strategies including good practice in defining objectives, targets, indicators and significant effect indicators.
Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core Output Indicators - Update 2/2008 10 July 2008 Regional Spatial Strategy and Local Development Framework: Core Output Indicators - Update 2/2008 - contains revised core output indicators for regional planning bodies and local planning authorities to report on in their Annual Monitoring Reports as part of the approach to regional and local monitoring set out in Planning Policy Statement 11: Regional Spatial Strategies (PPS11) and Planning Policy Statement 12: Local Spatial Planning (PPS12) and accompanying monitoring guidance.
Guide to Improving the Economic Evidence Base supporting Regional Economic and Spatial Strategies 16 September 2005 Guide to Improving the Economic Evidence Base supporting Regional Economic and Spatial Strategies - provides guidance on improving the use of economic evidence in preparing Regional Spatial Strategies (RSSs), and the spatial components of Regional Economic Strategies (RESs).

It gives advice on how Regional Planning Bodies (RPBs) and Regional Development Agencies (RDAs) can strengthen the evidence base to enable them to develop and justify more robust and regionally distinctive policies and strategies for regional development. It reflects the importance the Government attaches to the need for plans and policies to be properly based on analysis and evidence.