Guidance

Local plans: monitoring progress

The Planning Inspectorate maintains a list of the overall position for each LPA and a list of local plan examination hearing dates we are holding over the next few months

• From: Planning Inspectorate
• Published: 1 January 2012
• Last updated: 8 January 2026 — See all updates

Applies to England

Documents

Local plans examination hearing dates

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Plans containing strategic policies

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Plans containing strategic policies

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Plans containing non-strategic policies

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Plans containing non-strategic policies

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Details

If you have a question about the timing of the publication, submission or adoption of a local plan, please contact the relevant LPA directly.

Published 1 January 2012

Last updated 8 January 2026 + show all updates

1. 8 January 2026

   Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

2. 15 December 2025

   Wolverhampton Local Plan opening hearing was due to start tomorrow 16/12 but has been postponed, new date to be confirmed.

3. 11 November 2025

   Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

4. 5 November 2025

   Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

5. 9 October 2025

   Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

6. 8 September 2025

   Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

7. 7 August 2025

   Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

8. 4 August 2025

   Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

9. 9 July 2025

   Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

10. 9 June 2025

    Plans containing non-strategic policies, Local Plan examination hearing dates and Plans containing strategic policies updated

11. 8 May 2025

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies documents updated

12. 2 May 2025

    Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

13. 7 April 2025

    Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

14. 4 April 2025

    LPA hearing dates updated

15. 17 February 2025

    Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated with February 2025 data

16. 10 February 2025

    Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

17. 8 January 2025

    Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

18. 7 January 2025

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated with January 2025 data

19. 10 December 2024

    Hearing dates added for Enfield local plan

20. 10 December 2024

    Latest hearing dates added. Table updated to reorder most recent at top.

21. 7 November 2024

    The following have been updated: Plans containing strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment Plans containing strategic policies - HTML attachment Plans containing non-strategic policies - HTML attachment

22. 8 October 2024

    Latest data updated for 'Plans containing strategic policies' and 'Plans containing non-strategic policies'

23. 25 September 2024

    'list of local plan examination hearing dates' updated.

24. 11 September 2024

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

25. 8 August 2024

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

26. 5 July 2024

    Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

27. 12 April 2024

    Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

28. 13 March 2024

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

29. 22 January 2024

    Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

30. 7 November 2023

    Plans containing non-strategic policies and Plans containing strategic policies updated

31. 16 October 2023

    All attachments have been updated.

32. 8 August 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies have been updated

33. 7 July 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies -and Plans containing strategic policies updated

34. 9 June 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies - file attachment and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

35. 13 April 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates all updated with latest data

36. 20 March 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies, Plans containing non-strategic policies and Local Plan examination hearing dates updated with March 2023 data

37. 27 February 2023

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

38. 1 December 2022

    A hearing date for for Blackburn & Darwin has been added to the Local Plan examination dates.

39. 14 November 2022

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

40. 10 November 2022

    Local Plan examination hearing dates data updated

41. 13 October 2022

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

42. 5 September 2022

    Local Plan examination hearing dates updated

43. 10 August 2022

    Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

44. 12 July 2022

    Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

45. 6 July 2022

    Warrington and Barking and Dagenham added to the local plan hearing dates

46. 1 June 2022

    Updated with hearing dates for Cornwall Council's Climate Emergency DPD examination.

47. 12 May 2022

    Hearing dates added, plans containing strategic and plans containing non-strategic updated.

48. 7 April 2022

    Local Plan examination hearing dates, Plans containing strategic policies and Plans containing non-strategic policies updated.

49. 7 March 2022

    Plans containing strategic policies updated for March 2022. No update to the Plans containing non-strategic policies.

50. 1 March 2022

    East Northants hearing details added

51. 23 February 2022

    Plans containing non-strategic policies updated

52. 17 February 2022

    A list of Local Plan Examination hearing dates the Planning Inspectorate is holding over the next few months has been added

53. 14 February 2022

    Plans containing strategic policies updated.

54. 8 October 2021

    Plans containing strategic policies updated

55. 2 September 2021

    Plans containing strategic policies list updated

56. 9 August 2021

    July data added to the strategic plan sheet

57. 26 July 2021

    July 2021 data added

58. 1 January 2012

    First published.