We have established project management and governance arrangements
Preparing a local plan is a complex process. It involves many people across the council and from other organisations. Thinking early about how the work is planned, managed and signed off helps us monitor our progress and keep the work on track. It also helps us anticipate and manage any risks to us adopting the plan within 30 months.
We have used a project initiation document to help us with project planning and setting up governance arrangements for the plan. We have used the template provided by the Planning Advisory Service to help us do this.
We have prepared a project plan to help us prepare a plan in line with our local plan timetable. The project plan is reviewed regularly with our key decision makers to monitor progress with the plan.
As part of developing the project plan, we have identified risks to local plan delivery. We have reflected on these risks and identified things we can do to reduce these risks and keep things on track. We have also identified sufficient resources to enable us to deliver a new local plan for West Suffolk.
Government guidance advises us to ensure we have efficient sign off processes in place with key decision makers to keep the local plan on track. We have an established governance and approval process for each stage of the local plan including consultation stages. The governance process will be kept under review to ensure that decisions are made in a timely way, and we deliver a local plan in 30 months.