A blueprint mapping out the future development of Brighton and Hove is to be redrawn.

The city-wide plan, known as a core strategy, was created by Brighton and Hove City Council two years ago when opposition parties, upset at being excluded from the process, united to make major amendments to the previous Tory administration's plans.But now the new Green-led local authority wants to revise it to meet changes to the Government's approach to housing, development and planning.

The new framework will set out the long-term future of the city to 2030.

Council chiefs hope it will lead to renewed investment, provide affordable housing and jobs as well as the creation of sustainable buildings.

Planning and regeneration cabinet member Amy Kennedy said the revised plans would “reflect the actual needs of the city”.

She added: “We are proposing to produce a more robust plan that will have greater scope to tackle the major issues facing the city, attract investment and stimulate regeneration.

“It will also place significant emphasis on sustainable development and high quality design.”

Coun Kennedy said it would take into account changes such as the abolition of regional housing targets, the new South Downs National Park and the Localism Bill.

Every local authority in the country is required to create a core strategy as part of a number of documents to guide future development.

The local authority's cabinet is expected to agree to withdraw its current submitted proposal from Whitehall on Thursday.

It will then establish a cross-party working group to help develop the new plan and involve the local community in the decision-making process.

The document will then be brought back to cabinet later this year before it is discussed with residents and organisations.

Conservative group leader Geoffrey Theobald said: “It has been obvious, ever since the Localism Bill was laid before Parliament, that a new strategy would be required.

“The abolition of the regional strategy and associated housing targets is hugely welcome as is the opportunity to introduce genuine localism through neighbourhood plans.

“These are both extremely important changes which will need to be reflected in the revised strategy.”

Labour councillor Gill Mitchell said: “Updating the city's main planning strategy is a good opportunity to focus planning policy on boosting the local economy and attracting investment.

“However, there is a fear that the Government's approach of scrapping targets for new homes and devolving planning control to neighbourhood level will make the provision of desperately needed new homes in the city more difficult to achieve.”