Planning
Introduction
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A. Introduction
The deadline for responses to the Trust's consultation on its proposed planning application consultation policy was Friday 6 January 2012. Respondents were asked whether they broadly agreed or disagreed with the proposed policy and were invited to comment.
The consultation exercise was widely publicised
- Letters were sent to 1,223 Trust members
- 5 letters went out to Residents Associations active on the Suburb
- 60 posters were distributed for display on Residents Association notice boards across the Suburb
- Full information was available on the Trust's website
- A public meeting was held on 14 December 2011
- The meeting was attended by over 30 residents
- Minutes of the meeting are published (PDF)and were circulated to the Trust Council prior to their review of the draft policy.
As a result of the consultation
- 80 written responses were received from 76 households (some respondents sent more than one response) and summarised for consideration by the Trust Council.
- Of the 76 respondents, 67 were broadly in favour of the draft policy
- 9 respondents disagreed with the draft policy or their comments were ambiguous
- An unattributed summary of the responses is published as a separate document.(PDF)
B. Principal results of the Consultation
- Respondents' widely held view that the Trust should be prepared to notify any resident via email of applications subject to more extensive consultation has been accepted by the Trust Council
- Any resident (including non-members of the Trust) prepared to give the Trust their email address will be entitled to register for notification, by email, on applications requiring more extensive consultation.
- Several respondents were concerned that wider consultation might be sometimes be desirable in circumstances not covered by the proposed categories for wider consultation
- Respondents, and those attending the public meeting, proposed that categories could include "any other cases which the Trust considers are of particular importance".
- This view has been accepted by the Trust Council and an additional category requiring more extensive consultation has been added to the four categories originally proposed in the draft policy as follows
Any other application that the Trust considers is of sufficient significance or which has Suburb-wide implications so that more extensive consultation would be beneficial. READ MORE...
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