Spatial Planning

Riverside development (Previously Development Plans)

Consultations

Current Consultation:

Planning Obligations Supplementary Planning Document

The Council, with consultants Cushman and Wakefield, has prepared a new Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) – Planning Obligations – for consultation.

The SPD uses evidence of need and cost to formulate a standard charge for new residential development to help mitigate its impact on the borough’s infrastructure.

The consultation period runs from 9 August to 17^h September. All representations must be received by the Council no later than 4.45pm on Friday 17 September.

You can comment in a number of ways:

Please send a copy of your completed comments form to:

Spatial Planning,
Dacorum Borough Council,
Civic Centre,
Hemel Hempstead,
Herts HP1 1HH

If you have any queries about the consultation, please call the spatial planning team on 01442 228663.

A Sustainability Appraisal of the key significant environmental, economic and social effects of the SPD has been conducted and is available here.

Sustainability Appraisal for Planning Obligations SPD.

Much of the evidence for the information in the SPD is taken from the Dacorum Infrastructure Delivery Reports, undertaken by consultants URS. You can view these reports here.

Infrastructure Delivery Report - Transport Report (PDF 4.81 MB, opens in a new window).

Infrastructure Delivery Report - Utilities Report (PDF 1.53 MB, opens in a new window).

Infrastructure Delivery Report - Social Report (PDF 1.82 MB, opens in a new window).

Infrastructure Delivery Report - Executive Summary (PDF 2.06 MB, opens in a new window).

Please note that the reports are in draft form and are subject to change in light of further review between the Council and the consultants (URS). These reports are for information purposes only – they are not for public consultation.

Expected future consultations:

October 2010 - the Council’s published Core Strategy
August 2011 - the Council’s proposed list of all other sites.

Future Consultation on Gypsies and Travellers

We want to ensure that all comments focus on planning issues and can help the Council reach informed decisions. The following note offers guidance on matters that we will take into account and matters we cannot.

Particularly when handling a sensitive and potentially controversial subject, it is important that:

responses are written carefully and with respect for the subject and all people concerned.

This means you should:

concentrate on the planning issues; and
avoid any form of offensiveness to a particular racial or ethnic group (in this case Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers) (see below).

What is a valid planning concern?

Valid Planning Considerations:

Things you can reasonably raise with us as a valid concern in relation to planning issues are as follows:

conflict with planning policy: e.g. development on the Green Belt
affect on the landscape, hedgerows and trees
affect on important environmental areas, such as wildlife sites or ancient monuments
flood risk, drainage effects
contamination/pollution issues
traffic generation, access, road safety
availability of infrastructure – e.g. roads, schools
loss of current land use
competing land uses for the site
alternative locations

Matters which are not Planning Considerations:

the intended user of the development – it is the use of the site in planning terms not assumptions made about the future behaviour of the intended occupants that is important
devaluation of property
ownership
whether the intended user is liked/disliked, trusted/not trusted

Offensiveness to any racial group:

Representations should not:

be abusive, insulting, stereotyping or threatening;
seek to apply pressure to discriminate against racial groups; or
seek to incite hatred or contempt.

Site Allocations Issues and Options - Supplementary Paper.
Including Gypsy and Traveller sites.

Over 2,000 people responded to this planning consultation. Feedback was sought on suggestions for new housing sites, possible sites for Gypsies and Travellers and on areas that should be protected from development.

Comments on site options for Gypsies and Travellers accounted for 89% of the 2,124 individual responses received by the closing date of 19 December 2008. In addition there were seven petitions with 678 signatures.

This feedback is being reflected in a report on future Gypsy and Traveller provision that is due to be considered by Cabinet councillors on 31 March. The outcome will be published on the Council’s website in due course.

Documents and Comments:

For more information and to read the documents relating to this consultation please go to our Site Allocations page on the website.

To view the comments made on this consultation please see our online Consultations on Planning Policy Documents (opens in new window).

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What do we do?

Prepare, monitor and review the Dacorum Borough Local Plan. The Dacorum Borough Local Plan aims to regulate the development and use of land in the public interest, promote quality of life, meet local needs and to reconcile the demand for development and the protection of the environment .

Provide planning policy advice and evidence in order to support development control and implement the policies of the Local Plan.

Prepare development briefs and other detailed guidance so that development and land use proposals may be promoted and properly co-ordinated.

Maintain a monitoring and information system. Monitoring reports on house building and commercial development are regularly published, and a wide range of land use related information and publications is held in the Unit's library, including recent census data. Vacant Commercial Property Enquiries.

Support sustainability and other environmental initiatives. The Unit maintains an overview of needs for countryside management, nature conservation and general environmental improvement and supports the work of the Council's Environmental Resources officer and the Dacorum Environmental Forum.

Advise the Council about the implications of national, regional and strategic planning issues, those parts of the Development Plan prepared by the County Council, local plans of adjoining authorities and Local Transport Plan for Hertfordshire.

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The Development Plan For Dacorum

The Development Plan for Dacorum currently comprises the East of England Plan and saved policies in the following documents;

The Hertfordshire County Structure Plan 1991 - 2011

Produced by Hertfordshire County Council and covering the whole of Hertfordshire, it sets out the broad planning strategy. The plan will eventually be replaced by the East of England Plan.
The plan for the period 1991-2011 was adopted in April 1998 and only policies 3, 15, 24, 35 and 52 are saved.

The Dacorum Borough Local Plan 1991-2011

Produced by Dacorum Borough Council it covers the whole of the Borough. It contains detailed planning policies and proposals to guide development (other than waste and minerals issues) up to 2011.
It was adopted 21st April 2004. All but Policy 27 is saved.

The Hertfordshire Minerals Local Plan 2002 - 2016
and The Hertfordshire Waste Local Plan 1993 - 2005

Produced by Hertfordshire County Council, they cover the whole of the County. They contain all detailed planning policy and proposals relating to minerals and waste.
The Minerals Plan was adopted on 27 March 2007 and all policies are automatically saved for three years. Policies 1-46 (excluding 6) in the Waste Plan adopted on 12 January 1999 are saved.

Further Information:

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