Supplementary Planning Documents are designed to provide greater detail on specific allocations and planning policies. While they can expand upon existing policies, they cannot be used to allocate land and cannot create new policy.

Supplementary Planning Documents are non-statutory and are not subject to independent inspection, they will, however, be required to undergo rigorous procedures of community involvement. A list of SPDs that the Council intends to produce, including links to the webpage dealing with each document, has been included below.

The following SPDs will be produced by Cumbria County Council