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Core Strategy DPD

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The Core Strategy is one of the key documents that forms part of the emerging Local Development Frameworks. It will:

Set out the broad aims and objectives for sustainable development in the District for the next 15-20 years;
Set out broad policies for steering and shaping development;
Set out the broad locations for new housing, employment and infrastructure investment; and
Take account of national and regional policy and the Council’s aims in the Sustainable Community Strategy.
The Core Strategy will not allocate specific sites for new housing and employment development.

The final strategy should set out what is to be done, where and by whom to achieve the over arching vision and objectives. It needs to co-ordinate local authority and their partner organisations’ policies and actions, which affect what goes where in the area.

Core Strategy Information Leaflet (416 kb)

Progress of the Document

Further Issues and Options Consultation

The Council has recently consulted on a revised Spatial Vision and Objectives document which looked at four possible options of where to locate housing and jobs over the next 15 years. Extensive public engagement took place between January and May 2008.

A number of events were held with local people, community groups, and partners. Reports are now available to download which show what was discussed and what was said about development in the District and where we can best locate it.

Also available to view is a full record of all the written comments we received during the consultation process. Analysis of the comments is on-going and will be fed into the next stage of the preparation of the document (the preferred Options Stage)

Representations Received

Issues and Options Stage

The first stage in the preparation of the Core Strategy was to consult and discuss with the public and stakeholders the issues which the core strategy must address and the options for responding to them. To kick off these discussions the Council produced a series of 8 topic papers, which provided the background to the key issues and proposed a number of options for tackling the issues, and consulted on these documents between February and July 2007.

The reports below detail the various consultation events that were held and summaries of the written comments on each Topic Paper.