Planning our future

This council has started the preparation of a new Local Plan. This will replace the existing 1998 Local Plan and 2006 Alterations documents. The new Local Plan will guide development in the district up to 2033, being used to deal with planning applications and to provide land allocations.

The consultation is now closed. Public consultation took place between 30 July and 15 October 2012.

Read documents and comments made

Anyone who wants to know what local residents and stakeholders said during the recent ‘Community Choices’ public consultation can find out in our latest video update.

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 Travelling community accommodation needs survey

This recording outlines the reasons for the consultation with the travelling community of the district which will run through December 2012 and early January 2013.  This is being distributed, in DVD form, to all individual traveller pitches in the district.  There is also a covering letter and a paper form of the questions which are also included in the recording.

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