The Site Allocations Development Plan Document will allocate land for housing for twenty years. It will also allocate land for spcific other proposals, such as for retail and employment uses. All proposals will be shown on the Proposals Map.

Issues and Options Stage

November 2006 Issues & Options Consultation

An 11 week consultation commenced on 29 November 2006 and finished on 16 February 2007.

Read the documents relating to the consultation:

November 2008 Supplementary Issues and Options Paper (including Gypsy and Traveller Sites)

This consultation began on 3 November 2008 and closed on the 19 December 2008.

Read the documents relating to the consultation:

Maps of Sites:

Responses to the consultation:

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 incorporated in a report on Gypsy and Traveller provision issues considered by Cabinet councillors on 31 March 2009.

 

To view comments made and the relating documents for this consultation please go to the Consultation Portal

Guide to valid planning considerations and racial comments

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 (for example 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.

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