Fylde to consult on local plan
The council’s over-arching development vision for the next 15 years will be released for consultation after sign-off this week.
Fylde Council’s executive met yesterday to consider a report from officers with the recommendation that, subject to highlighted minor amendments, the draft plan be issued for consultation.
The local authority set out its intention to produce a new local plan in its local development scheme, published in February 2025.
Fylde’s proposed ‘Local Plan to 2042’ will set out statutory policies for the assessment of planning applications, and provide allocations of land to provide for development needs a decade beyond the end of the current local plan.
The council has already consulted on the options, issues, vision and scope document in autumn 2025, with responses to that informing this, the ‘publication version’.
Officers said that the report highlights that many policies are taken forward from the existing local plan, with no or only minor changes, adding that the timetable is very tight, owing to the imposition of a new plan-making system from the beginning of 2027, by which time the local plan must be submitted to the secretary of state.
Of interest are items such as the settlement hierarchy, which sets out a development strategy for 90% of homes coming forward to be developed in four strategic locations: St Annes (including Squires Gate); Whitehills and Whyndyke; Warton; and Kirkham & Wesham.
The Local Plan will provide for 6,656 new homes in the period 2026-2042, which is taken from the government’s local housing need figure.
A small non-strategic amendment to the Green Belt is made to accommodate strategic growth at the BAE Systems site in Warton,
Chapter 4 of the draft plan sets out locations for development, in particular allocated development sites. All of the employment allocations, with the exception of a site south of Bradkirk Business Park in Wesham are the remaining parts of the sites allocated in the existing local plan.
Why are you doing this when in two years your going to be no more as a council . This is a waste of council tax money. And should not be happening.
By Sammymac
Strategic Plan? You are trashing the Fylde like you have done everywhere else eg. Ribble Valley with thousands of modern slums and polluting everywhere with tens of 1000s of toxic spewing cars. Public transport will be minimal, a real recipe for advancing Global warming. Good luck carry on with your destruction of what was once a beautiful land but now is a dump
By John Matthews
Where are the Brownfield sites or are you just putting Greenfield sites in this plan?
By Anonymous
As predicted, planners will not be happy until all Fylde villages amalgamate to become City of the Fylde- well done.
By Anonymous
@ June 25, 2026 at 6:54 pm
By Anonymous
There’s not many brownfield sites in Fylde District. Nevertheless, what is needed is more street based developments that use less land plus some gentle densification. I’ve suggested to Fylde in the past to draw up a design code for the borough (learning from Blackpool) but no avail. Looks like more of the same then. Still, the district will be dissolved in the not too distant future…
By Rye
When large parts of Blackpool need demolishing and rebuilding, Fylde borough being told it has to build 6000 homes on greenbelt says a lot about the nonsense of the UKs centralised command, what it does to our country and how unaccountable it is. Is it drift, or is it deliberate? We’ll never know. We just get to watch nice places get paved over, and places like Blackpool carry on descending into urban decay with no meaningful government intervention.
By John
I am thinking of retiring to Paulton in a few years. Unfettered building and development will destroy it, so it might be down to my second choice in North Yorkshire
By Anonymous
Where is the infrastructure to accommodate the rise in new housing and people, schools GPs etc. I live in the Fylde for a reason rural countryside I do not want to live in a town or city.
By Victoria Bamber
More prime agricultural land being smothered in concrete when we desperately need our farmers to grow crops to feed everybody instead of importing it.
On top of that you are killing the wildlife,the eco system and ultimately this country. Even the national parks are under threat from developers. This tiny island of ours is finished in terms of it being a place to raise a young family in a once green and pleasant land.
By Anonymous