Transcript MVDC Housing and Traveller sites consultation

MVDC Housing and Traveller
sites consultation
Jan
January 10th – 7th March 2014
Why is it important to comment?
• The planners have only made a preliminary assessment
• They do not know the area as well as residents
• If you know good reasons why the site should not be (or
be!) developed then please submit your comments to the
consultation.
• Comments should be as objective and factual as possible.
Suggest limiting to 2 sides of A4 max.
• Don’t worry about submitting the same comment as has
been made by others. This just adds more power to the
comment. (but use a different form of words......)
• Comments on the consultation are much more powerful
than signing petitions. The planning inspectorate will only
see the comments submitted to the consultation.
What is the consultation ?
• MVDC have asked landowners to “offer” sites for
possible development in Mole Valley
• 80 possible sites have been identified excluding
Ashtead, Westcott and Ockley.
• MVDC have made a preliminary assessment of the
suitability of each site
• Residents are asked to comment on the assessments.
• MVDC stress that no decisions have been made on any
site
• Only 1 site (old police station) has a planning
application submitted for it.
How to participate in the consultation
• You can submit your comments in 3 ways;
1. Directly onto the MVDC website. I will
demonstrate later.
2. Send an Email to MVDC
3. Send a letter to MVDC (best using the MVDC
form)
• In all cases its important to reference your
comments using the code allocated by MVDC
to the site you want to comment on.
Will it make a difference?
• The planners don’t want to get it wrong. They
have to take notice of factual objective input.
• Strong resistance to building on the greenbelt
in Guildford is already having an effect on the
politicians in the Borough Council.
• Its important to win the battle now. Once a
site has been recommended for removal from
the greenbelt it will be very much harder to
fight development
Gypsies and Travellers
• The council proposals for Gypsy and Traveller
pitches are contained in Chapter 12 of the
consultation document.
• Each of the larger sites (e.g Barnet Wood
Lane, Randalls Road, The Fairway, Yarm
Way/Windmill Drive )has to accept a possible
0.2 Ha of Traveller pitches.
• Comments on the traveller plan should
reference Chapter 12.
MVDC website
• To add your comments on the website you have first to
register.
• The consultation part of the website is used for
multiple consultations at the same time. It also lists
previous closed consultations.
• If you want to attach pictures or documents you have
to Email them to the planning officers.
• If you have long comments write them first in a word
document or text editor and “cut and paste”.
• Now – a demonstration
http://www.molevalley.gov.uk/
Thank you for listening!
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