Highland Local Development Plan
Highland Local Development Plan (HLDP)
A new Plan for Highland - Live consultation
We are currently preparing a new local development plan for Highland.
Local development plans show how local places can change in the future, including where development should and should not happen.
We are gathering the evidence we believe is relevant and necessary to write the Highland Local Development Plan (HLDP) but now want everyone’s views on the sufficiency and implications of that information. Read and respond to our Evidence Papers, submit a development site so it can be considered for inclusion in the Plan, or give us other local priority land use ideas and information.
The evidence documents contain a few factual errors. A list of the corrected errors is available to download.
The national context for the new HLDP is set out in National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4).
As required by NPF4, we are aiming for the HLDP to be:
- place-based, so that it is relevant, accessible, and useful to people with an interest in their place
- developed in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders
- based on robust evidence, so that it is deliverable
Local Place Plans
We have prepared advice and guidance for community bodies preparing Local Place Plans, and we continue to check and register these Plans.
Development Plans Newsletter
Our Development Plans Newsletter (January 2025) gives future HLDP stages and timescales.
Other engagement opportunities will be announced on this page.