Portsmouth City Council as local planning authority hereby gives notice under Regulation 20 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 of its Scoping Consultation.
The Scoping Consultation (PDF, 686.9KB) is the first stage in preparing the new Future Portsmouth Plan (FPP). The Council would like to hear from people who live and work in the City and other stakeholders on the new FPP. The Council would like your views on the following matters:
- The Vision for the FPP;
- The key issues facing the City;
- The priorities for the FPP;
- How the Council should engage with consultees in the preparation of the FPP.
Your feedback will help us agree the scope of the FPP and establish how people should be consulted on this to feed into the FPP. This will then be set out in the Council’s new Engagement Strategy.
The Scoping Consultation is running from 29 September to 2 November 2026. You can respond to this consultation by completing a response form. The deadline for responses is 11:59pm on 2 November 2026.
The response form includes the option for you to request to be notified on the following future stages of the Future Portsmouth Plan:
- Public consultation on proposed local plan content and evidence;
- Publication of observations or advice from a person appointed by the Secretary of State under section 15CA(5) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act;
- Consultation on the proposed local plan submission documents;
- Submission of the proposed local plan to the Secretary of State for examination;
- Publication of the date, time and place at which the examination hearing is to be held, and the name of the Inspector;
- If the examination is paused for further work to be carried out;
- The publication of the document and any evidence sent to the Inspector when the examination is paused;
- Publication of the Inspector's recommendations and reasons;
- The adoption of the local plan.
The Scoping Consultation document and Notice of Local Plan Scoping Consultation will be available to view at the Council's Civic Offices, the Central Library, Cosham Library, Carnegie (Fratton) Library, and Southsea Library during the consultation period.
If you have any questions or need to respond in another format, please email the policy team at policyconsultations@portsmouthcc.gov.uk or write to us at Planning Policy, Portsmouth City Council, Civic Offices, Guildhall Square, Portsmouth, PO1 2AU.
You can also contact the Council using the above contact details if you wish to be notified about future stages of the FPP plan-making process.
This notice was published on 29 September 2026.