Government regulations set out the key steps we must follow when reviewing the local plan.  We have published a document called Planning: Having Your Say which sets out how we involve communities, business and other stakeholders in this process. The local plan is put together based upon a significant amount of evidence and research together with the views we receive at the different stages of consultation.  Before a local plan is ‘adopted’ and can be used for decision making it goes through an examination in public, where an independent inspector considers how the plan has been put together, whether it is deliverable, and hears the views of anyone who objects to a policy in the plan.