A core strategy document is the key compulsory local development document

Local Development Documents

Local development documents are a set of documents specified in United Kingdom planning law which a local planning authority creates to describe their strategy for development and use of land in their area of authority....

 specified in United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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 planning law. Every other local development document is built on the principles it sets out, regarding the development and use of land in a local planning authority

Local Planning Authority

A local planning authority is the local authority or council that is empowered by law to exercise planning functions for a particular area of the United Kingdom. Although, in Scotland, where all of the local authorities are unitary, the term 'planning authority' is used without the 'local'...

's area. The principles should be in accordance with the community strategy

Community strategy

Legislation concerning the Community Strategy is under section 4 of the Local Government Act 2000 . This Act relates to Wales and England....

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Some legal requirements of a core strategy document

Additional to the requirements of all local development documents, core strategy documents:-

• Should be location specific rather than site specific and so may be illustrated by a key diagram or on Ordnance Survey
  Ordnance Survey
  Ordnance Survey , an executive agency and non-ministerial government department of the Government of the United Kingdom, is the national mapping agency for Great Britain, producing maps of Great Britain , and one of the world's largest producers of maps.The name reflects its creation together with...
  
  -based proposal maps.
• May need to be expressed as criteria-based policies.

See also

• Development plan document
  Development Plan Document
  A local development framework must include development plan documents , which outline the key development goals of the local development framework...
  
  
• The Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004
  The Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004
  The Town and Country Planning Regulations 2004 are a statutory instrument that sets out the specific local development documents which local planning authorities in England are required to prepare and how that should be done....