Thetford Area Action Plan (TAAP)
The Thetford Area Action Plan (TAAP) is a formal planning document produced and adopted by Breckland District Council in 2012. It contains the blueprint for Thetford's Sustainable Urban Expansion (the Kingsfleet development) and a number of planning policies that should govern developments within the town.
Despite the TAAP being a formal planning policy document, Breckland District Council (as the planning authority) has not been very effective at ensuring a number of these policies were delivered. As a result several local enhacements and facilities have not been provided as they should have been.
The TAAP as a whole has now been superseded by the Breckland Local Plan, but a number of the policies in the TAAP have been 'saved' by being incorporated into the new plan. These saved policies that are:
- TH 4: Transport — Achieving Modal Shift
- TH 5: The Impact of Change on Pedestrians, Cyclists and Buses
- TH 6: Thetford Bus Interchange
- TH 7: Thetford Railway Station
- TH 9: Monitoring and management of Key Biodiversity Sites
- TH 11: Joe Blunt's Lane
- TH 12: The Thetford Loops
- TH 18: Archaeology Action Plan
- TH 20: Thetford Urban Extension Strategic Design Principles
- TH 21: Locally Distinctive Features of the Landscape
- TH 22: Gallows Hill Scheduled Monument
- TH 23: Existing Buildings in the Thetford Urban Extension
- TH 25: Walking and Cycling
- TH 26: Buses
- TH 27: A New Railway Station in the Urban Extension
- TH 28: Changes to the A11 Trunk Road
- TH 29: Improvements to the Local Road Network
- TH 30: New Employment Land
- TH 31: New Local Centre(s) in the Urban Extension
- TH 32: Connecting to a Decentralised Energy Supply
- TH 34: New Health Facility in the Urban Extension
- TH 35: Community Buildings
- TH 37: Regeneration Proposals in Existing Residential Areas