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The Temple Quarter Spatial Framework is a non-statutory planning guidance document which covers the Temple Quarter Enterprise Zone and was prepared by Bristol City Council in October 2016. Currently adopted planning policy BCAP35 of the Bristol Local Plan – Bristol Central Area Plan requires development to have regard to the Spatial Framework. It provides guidance, helps co-ordinate and integrate investment, sets out the ambitions for the area and promotes an integrated place-making approach with sustainable urban design at its core. The Spatial Framework is a material consideration in the determination of planning applications relevant to the framework area.

The Temple Quarter Development Framework, if adopted, will also be a non-statutory planning guidance document and covers a much larger area than the Spatial Framework including 130ha of land at Temple Quarter including Bristol Temple Meads Station and St Philip's Marsh. The Development Framework includes some of the Spatial Framework area, but not all of it. The purpose of the Development Framework is to set out a future vision for regeneration for the whole Temple Quarter area and not just the Enterprise Zone. The draft Development Framework was prepared on behalf of a public sector partnership, including Bristol City Council, Network Rail, Homes England and West of England Combined Authority, who are leading the Temple Quarter regeneration programme. Following the consultation of the Development Framework if endorsed by Bristol City Council Cabinet it will become a material planning consideration, similar to the Spatial Framework.