The Council of the Isles of Scilly, as the Planning Authority for the area, has a statutory duty to prepare, monitor and review a Local Plan for the islands.
January 2026: Moving on to a New Local Plan, we are currently in the evidence gathering and preparatory stages of replacing our adopted local plan. For information on that process and how and when to get involved, please follow the link below:
If you are looking for information on the adopted Local Plan please follow the link below. We will use that page to update on the latest timetable for the preparation of Development Plan Documents and Supplementary Planning Documents (Local Development Scheme) and to publish our Annual Authority Monitoring Reports:
If you are looking for any previous Local Plan documents, which have now been archived please follow the links below:
Isles of Scilly Local Plan: a 2020 Vision (2005) REVOKED