Evidence & Plan Preparation Documents

• Draft Black Country Plan (Regulation 18) Consultation Documents (2021), including:
  • Consultation Responses (2022)
  • Draft Black Country Plan Document
  • Errata, Interactive/ Draft Policies Map and Sustainability Appraisal (Lepus)
     
• Draft Black Country Plan (Regulation 18) Plan Preparation Documents (2021), including:
  • Black Country Plan Regulation 18 Duty to Cooperate Statement
  • Black Country Plan Options Document
     
• Black Country Plan Call for Sites submissions and interactive site map (2020)
   
• Black Country Core Strategy Issues and Options Consultation Documents (2017), including: 
  • Report, Sustainability Appraisal and Consultation Statement 
     
• Adopted Black Country Core Strategy (2011)

• Black Country Centres Study Addendum 2022 (Lambert Smith Hampton) (published 2023)
  • Vol 1: Main Report (Can be found in Downloads section)
  • Vol 2: Appendices  (Can be found in Downloads section)

• Black Country Centres Study (Lambert Smith Hampton) (published 2021)
  • Black Country Centres Study Update (2021)
    • Vol 1: Main Report
    • Vol 2: Healthchecks
    • Vol 3: Quantitative Modelling
  • Black Country Centres Study (2020)
    • Vol 1: Main Report
    • Vol 2: Healthchecks
    • Vol 3: Quantitative Modelling
    • Vol 4: Household Survey Results

• Black Country Employment Land Needs Assessment Update 2023 - Warwick Economics and Development (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Black Country Employment Land Supply Technical Paper Update 2023 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Draft Black Country Plan evidence: 
  • Black Country Employment Area Review (BEAR) (2021)
  • Main Document
  • Appendix 2
  • Appendix 3
  • Black Country Economic Development Needs Assessment (EDNA) Update (Warwick Economics and Development) (2021)
  • EDNA2 Report
  • Black Country Employment Land Supply Technical Paper (2021)
  • West Midlands Strategic Rail Freight Interchange – Employment Issues Response Paper (Stantec) (2021)
  • SFRI Apportioning the Land
  • West Midlands Strategic Employment Sites Study (Avison Young / Arcadis) (2021)

Environment

• Open Space & Playing Pitch and Outdoor Sport Strategies and Action Plans:
  • Wolverhampton Playing Pitch and Outdoor Sport Strategy Assessment and Action Plan (KKP)(2023)
  • Black Country Playing Pitch and Outdoor Sport Overarching Strategic Framework (KKP)(2022)
     
• Evidence Base Studies:
  • Black Country Local Nature Recovery Map & Strategy and Appendices 2022 – an emerging approach (Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country / EcoRecord) (published 2023)
  • Wolverhampton Local Site Assessment Reports (Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country) (published 2023)
     
• Black Country iTree survey (Black Country Consortium / Black Country Authorities) (published 2023)
   
• Draft Black Country Plan Environment evidence:
  • BCP Interim Habitats Regulations Assessment Interim Report (Lepus) (2021)
  • An Ecological Evaluation of the Black Country Green Belt (Wildlife Trust for Birmingham and the Black Country / EcoRecord) (2019)
  • Black Country Water Cycle Study: Phase 1 Scoping (JBA) Published 2020)
  • Black Country Level 1 Strategic Flood Risk Assessment (JBA) and Appemdices (2019)
  • Black Country Historic Landscape Characterisation Study (Oxford Archaeology) (2019)
     
• Draft Black Country Plan Green Belt evidence:
  • Black Country Landscape Sensitivity Assessment (LUC) (2019) 

Sustainability Appraisal

• Wolverhampton Local Plan Issues and Preferred Options Sustainability Appraisal Lepus 2024  (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Habitats Regulations Assessment Lepus 2024  (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report Lepus 2022 (Can be found in Downloads section)

• Black Country Plan Health Chapter Evidence Base (2021)

• Wolverhampton Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Need figures to 2042 - 2024 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Black Country Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation Assessment 2022 RRR - published 2023 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment SHLAA 2022 - published 2023 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Black Country Plan evidence:
  • Black Country Housing Market Assessment (HDH) (2021)
  • Black Country Urban Capacity Review Update 2020 (published 2021)
     
• West Midlands Combined Authority Black Country Brownfield Land Study Chilmark - 2022

• Black Country Plan evidence:
  • Black Country Digital Infrastructure Evidence Base (2021)
  • Black Country Plan Viability and Delivery Study (Aspinall Verdi) (2021)
    • Report
    • Appendices
    • Infrastructure Paper
    • Key Large Sites Viability and Deliverability Study
  • Black Country Utilities Infrastructure Capacity Study (PBA Stantec)(2019) (Published 2021)

• Black Country Plan evidence base
  • Black Country Parking Study Stage 1 Aecom - 2021
     
• Black Country Plan Transport Modelling Report Sweco - 2023 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Black Country Parking Study Stage 2 Aecom 2022 - published 2024 (Can be found in Downloads section)
• West Midlands Cycling and Walking Network Improvement Plan - published 2019 (Can be found in Downloads section)

• Black Country Waste Study Update (Wood) - 2022 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix B (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix C (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix D (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix E (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix F (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix G (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Appendix H (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Draft Black Country Plan evidence:
  • Black Country Waste Study and Appendices 2020 (Wood) (published 2021) 
  • Black Country Minerals Study and Appendices 2019 (Wood) (published 2021) 

• Issues & Preferred Options (Regulation 18) Consultation Documents (2024)
  • Summary Leaflet
  • Main Document 
  • Sustainability Appraisal
  • Interactive Map
     
• Wolverhampton Local Development Scheme 2024-2027 (2024)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Procedural Notice - 2024 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Consultation Statement (Regulation 18) including summary of issues raised on the proposed policies in the 2021 Draft Black Country Plan consultation - 2024  (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Duty to Cooperate Statement (Regulation 18) - 2024 (Can be found in Downloads section)
   
• Wolverhampton Local Plan Site Assessment Report (Regulation 18) - 2024
  • Site Assessment Report (Can be found in Downloads section)
  • Appendix 1 Summary (Can be found in Downloads section)
  • Appendix 2 Forms and Plans (Can be found in Downloads section)
  • Appendix 3 Accessibility Standards Modelling (Can be found in Downloads section)
     
• Wolverhampton Statement of Community Involvement - 2023