The New Forest District Council (NFDC) is the Planning Authority for the District, excluding The National Park Authority Area. The current development plan documents for New Forest District outside the National Park are the Core Strategy 
and the saved policies of the New Forest District Local Plan First Alteration .
The Core Strategy for New Forest District (outside the National Park) provides the broad planning strategy for the area up to 2026 and was adopted by the Council on 26 October 2009. Further details relating to this can be found on the planning policy section of the website.
Transport Contributions
NFDC agreed a transport contributions policy in March 2008, which seeks to collect contributions on all relevant new developments in planning applications submitted on or after 1st April 2008. The policy is based on Hampshire County Council's transport contributions policy (September 2007). Further details relating to the policy and list of schemes are available in the Local Transport Schemes / Developer Transport Contributions section of the website.
Car Parking
The Council adopted a Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document, on 3rd October 2012, which sets out guidance to developers and others on the provision of car parking space in new developments covering all development types.
Ringwood Town Access Plan
The Ringwood Town Access Plan is a strategy which sets out how access to facilities and services within the town can be improved. It will guide transport infrastructure development within Ringwood over the next 20 years. The final version of the document was agreed for adoption at NFDC's Cabinet Meeting on 2nd March 2011 and Hampshire County Council's Executive Member for Environment and Transport adopted the TAP on 5th April 2011. Further information on the Ringwood Town Access Plan is available in the Planning Policy section of the website.
Other
For the District outside the National Park Area, the following local documents are also especially important:
NFDC's Sustainable Community Strategy
NFDC's District Local Plan (to be replaced by Local Development Framework in due course)
