Leeds City Council is proposing significant changes to their local planning policy in response to the climate emergency – and a public consultation is now open on these changes. The Local Plan is essential because it shapes development across the city and sets the standards developers must meet.

The Council’s Local Plan Update is called ‘Your Neighbourhood, Your City, Your Planet’. Encouragingly, it includes much more ambitious policies on carbon reduction in new buildings, how new development should reduce flood risk and improve biodiversity, and supporting the concept of 20 minute neighbourhoods, amongst other things.

We now need to get as many supportive responses as possible to this consultation by Monday 19th December – so that it can be approved and we can see faster local action on the climate emergency.

After this consultation, the government’s Planning Inspector is tasked with judging whether these new planning policies are what the people of Leeds actually want. This is a numbers game. So we need to say an enormous YES! If we don’t show enough support, we won’t get these ambitious changes to policy.

What do we need you to do?

1. Go to the Council’s consultation website and tick SUPPORT for all the policies. Respond before the 19th December – it only takes 10 minutes!

2. Spread the word with your friends and neighbours and in your workplace.

3. Share this news article on social media and tell people you have responded, using the hashtag #ClimateLocalPlan.

You can read more about the Local Plan and how to show your support via the Our Future Leeds website.

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