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An effective spatial development strategy will be pivotal to delivering the housing and infrastructure that local people and businesses need and deserve. They are intended to plan for the long term and provide certainty for communities, local planning authorities and investors on where development should come forward. It is therefore important that they are not changed regularly as this will introduce uncertainty and undermine the ability of local planning authorities to bring forward local plans that accord with SDSs. However, there will be occasions where a review of a spatial development strategy is necessary to ensure that it reflects significant changes at a national or local level, for example, substantial changes to national policy, to respond to new evidence of development needs or opportunities such as the announcement of investment in a major piece of infrastructure which could unlock development.