Matters Arising Changes 2026

1. Introduction

1.1The Carmarthenshire Revised Local Development Plan (rLDP) 2018-2033 is currently the subject of an Examination in Public. The Council has compiled a Schedule of Matters Arising Changes (MACs) primarily as a result of Action Points arising from the Examination Hearing Sessions that took place in October and November 2024, and September 2025. These changes are required to make the Plan sound. All of these MACs have been agreed with the Inspectors. The MACs are presented for consultation and details of the consultation arrangements can be found below. This document should be read in conjunction with the updated Action Points available on the Examination website.

Types of MACs

1.2The Matters Arising Changes fall into two categories:

1. MACs (for consultation). The MACs are the main proposed changes to the Plan. They include changes of varying substance which relate to policy wordings, explanatory text and the proposals map. The Council considers these changes necessary to demonstrate the soundness of the rLDP and they have been agreed with the Inspectors. These changes use the prefix ‘MAC’ and are individually numbered.
2. Minor Editing Changes (for information). The Minor Editing Changes (MECs) are alterations to the Plan which do not affect the meaning or implementation of a policy. They primarily include minor typographical changes, policy re-numbering and other general editing changes to the written statement. The MECs are presented for information only and can be found as a separate document on the Matters Arising Changes web page. Representations are not invited on the MECs.

1.3Some of the changes identified in the schedule require mapping changes to the Proposals Map and Inset Maps. These illustrate boundary changes, factual corrections or the inclusion of additional information on the LDP Proposals Map and Inset Maps. Only map changes relating to soundness issues are included in the MACs (distinguished as Map MACs), others, which are factual changes, are included in the MEC schedule.

1.4The two types of changes set out above are presented in separate schedules. The changes are presented in table form with each change having:

1. a unique reference number;
2. the part of the RLDP to which it relates e.g. policy number or paragraph number;
3. the change itself with proposed deleted text presented in red and new proposed text presented in green; and
4. the source or origin of the change such as the Action Point reference together with the reason for the change.

The MAC schedule uses existing site references as identified in the Second Deposit revised LDP and the Additional Sites Consultation documents. The site references will be subject to review to ensure that they run consecutively and consistently taking account of the removal of sites identified as commitments and the inclusion of additional sites. For the purposes of consulting on the MACs the original site references are retained for ease of reference and reader usability.

1.5Further consequential changes may also be necessary to the text of the rLDP as a result of the MACs identified in the schedule.