PR 225
For immediate release
1 August 2006
Great Yarmouth Local Development Framework - The Core Strategy Preferred Options Consultation
Residents and businesses can help plan the future of Great Yarmouth Borough over the next 15 years by having their say on the Council’s ‘Core Strategy’ Preferred Options – which will form the base of the new Local Development Framework (LDF).
The preferred options consultation is the second stage of the process. It gets underway on 7 August 2006 and sees brownfield regeneration as a key challenge.
It builds on previous successful community and stakeholder consultations, which took place in October 2005 and last May, to develop Core Strategy Issues and Options from which the Preferred Options have devolved.
The LDF sets out the Council’s vision for what it would prefer the Borough to look like in the future. It will replace the current Great Yarmouth Borough–wide Local Plan (2001), which is used to guide the Council's decisions on planning applications for development.
The Core Strategy is central to addressing the key strategic issues for the Local Development Framework and is a phrase that you are likely to come across regularly in the LDF process. So what is it?
It is the document that sets out the strategic criteria against which decisions about the use of land can be made over the next 15 years.
It is a Development Plan Document (DPD), which means it forms the starting point for determining any planning application, and it needs to tie in with a number of policy documents including the Regional Spatial Strategy for the East of England, the Norfolk Structure Plan, the Norfolk Local Transport Plan and the Great Yarmouth Community Strategy.
Having been agreed by full Council on 27 July 2006 the ‘Core Strategy’ Preferred Options and its accompanying Sustainability Appraisal Report will now undergo a further period of consultation between 7 August and 18 September 2006.
The documents are available to view here on our website or at Council Offices, Libraries and Community Liaison and Information Points (CLIP’s) throughout the Borough.
To respond to the survey, residents and business will find a representation form with the documents.
The Head of Planning and Development, Peter Warner said: “This document sets out the Council’s Planning Agenda for the next 15 years - a key challenge is achieving brownfield regeneration with our partners 1stEast.”
The Leader of Great Yarmouth Borough Council, Councillor Coleman, is encouraging residents to get involved in the consultation.
“It is important that local residents and businesses use this opportunity to tell us how they would like Great Yarmouth to develop over the coming years,” he said. “This framework will be used as a guide for all future developments and will create a lasting legacy for generations to come.”
For further information contact Peter Warner (Head of Planning and Development) 01493 846104 / James Harland (Planning Policy Assistant) 01493 846475 / Sarah Slade (Planning Policy Assistant) 01493 846688.
Issued by:
Liz Dann
Press Officer
Great Yarmouth Borough Council
01493 846513