South Lanarkshire Council is inviting residents to submit their views on its proposed new Local Development Plan (SLLDP2) next month.

The strategy will form the basis of the council's decisions relating to new development proposals throughout the area.

The current LDP and associated statutory supplementary guidance was adopted in 2015. It sits alongside the Minerals Local Development Plan, which councillors agreed last year should be be amalgamated with SLLDP2 during the current process.

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Local communities are now being invited to comment and view the Main Issues Report (MIR), the first published document in the process of preparing the new plan, between March and May.

The council is also seeking views on key minerals policy matters alongside the MIR.

Cllr Hugh Dunsmuir said: "The Main Issues Report is not a draft version of the new Plan and no decisions will be made at this stage of the process. We are merely setting out options for dealing with the main issues it outlines and how they might be handled in the SLLDP2, identifying, for example, where it may be appropriate for the council to change or review policies.

"Essentially the main purpose of the MIR is to allow early comment from interested parties on how the council could address the key matters that have been identified through consultation."

It is anticipated the final draft plan will be ready for approval and formal adoption by 2019.

(LM/MH)