First language not EnglishCore Strategy The Core Strategy and Key Diagram Development Plan Document (or Core Strategy for short) is one of the most important parts of the Local Development Framework. When adopted, the Core Strategy will set out a spatial vision for the area and the broad development principles and proposals that will help achieve that vision over the coming years. Update Result of the Joint Committee: 23/07/10 There was a meeting of the Luton and South Bedfordshire Joint Planning Committee on Friday the 23rd July 2010. At this meeting it was agreed that the Core Strategy as presented can go forward to the next stage of the process that will eventually result in new planning policy for the Luton and South Bedfordshire area. The agenda, reports and minutes can be viewed here. Below is the link to a poster with information about the document and key changes that are being made to it. We are not specifically seeking comments at this stage but we are letting people know how the plan is changing in response to the comments made so far. Core Strategy Update Information Poster A formal consultation will be under taken later this year. Previous Consultation - Preferred Options The responses to the Issues and Options Paper, along with the findings of over twenty technical evidence studies have been used to inform the Core Strategy Preferred Options document. On 20th March 2009, the Joint Committee approved the document for consultation. To view the report that went to the Joint Committee, please click here. The consultation began on 17th April and ran until 12th June 2009. To view the documents please click here Alternatively, a PDF of the Core Strategy Preferred Options document is available to view below Core Strategy Preferred Options Over twenty technical evidence studies have been used to help inform the Core Strategy Preferred Options document. To view these technical studies please vist the 'Evidence Studies' section of this website. To view the Core Strategy Preferred Options Sustainability Appraisal please click here Previous Consultations - Issues and Options There are several stages to preparing the Core Strategy. From July to October 2007, officers from South Bedfordshire District Council, Luton Borough Council and Bedfordshire County Council undertook four months of public consultation as part of the first stage of the process; the ‘Issues and Options’ stage. The documents that were part of this consultation are available to download here. Issue 5 Sustainable Communities Following that consultation, all the responses received were inputted to our Limehouse consultation software. Those consultation responses will be available to view through that software shortly. A report summarising the main issues raised in that consultation was presented to the Luton and South Bedfordshire Joint Committee on 29 February 2008, and available to view here.
To view the Core Strategy Issues and Options Sustainability Appraisal please use the links below:
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