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Land Allocations
Issues & Options Consultation
The first stage in preparing the Land Allocations document was open for public comment between 24 January and 19 March 2008. The consultation has now closed, and thank you to everyone who made comments. We have received a large number of responses online, by e-mail and in paper copy, and as such it may take a few weeks for us to acknowledge receipt of all representations. We will be analysing all the responses received over the next few months, alongside the comments received last Autumn to the Core Strategy and Development Policies papers. The submission draft of the Core Strategy should be available for comment in Autumn 2008, whilst the preferred options draft of the Land Allocations should follow early in 2009.
The consultation documents are still available below for information, but we can accept no further comments.
The consultation documents and accompanying Sustainability Appraisal / Strategic Environmental Assessment are also available as pdf documents at the bottom of this page. There are also maps showing all the sites proposed in Baldock, Hitchin, Letchworth Garden City and Royston.
Background
The level of new housing the District is required to accommodate and number of new jobs we should try and generate are set by the East of England Plan which was published on 12 May 2008. The North Hertfordshire Core Strategy will give guidance on how such development will broadly be distributed, dealing with such matters as which villages will be considered appropriate for development or whether there should be greenfield growth around any towns or villages.
The final Land Allocations document will specify sites to meet the District's needs for housing, employment, retail, leisure, community facilities and any other uses considered necessary. At this first stage, more sites are identified than are likely to be required and the inclusion of sites in this document is not an indication that the Council will ultimately wish to see the site developed. The results of this consultation and any other evidence which emerges will be used to determine which sites are taken forward to the second, preferred options, stage.
Consultation Responses and Analysis
The responses to the Gypsy and Traveller section of the Land Allocations Issues & Options consultation have now been analysed. In total, almost 3,000 people responded and their representations are available below. (Please note, the first and last pages of each section may contain some representations relating to other sections of the document).
Responses to consultation questions (not site specific) (1.02MB)
Barkway representations (3.18MB)
Pirton representations (4.25MB)
Sandon representations (2.15MB)
Whitwell, St Paul's Walden representations (1.51MB)
The analysis of the representations and a summary statement fo the comment received during the public consultation on the areas of search for Gypsy and Traveller Accommodation and the Council's responses is available below.
Summary analysis and Council's response (180kB)
Consultation Documents
The Land Allocations Issues & Options Paper is quite large, so has been broken down into smaller sections.
A. Introduction (575kb)
B. Structure of the document and site list (85kb)
C. Employment introduction (85kb)
D. Employment sites (1791kb)
E. Gypsy and Traveller introduction (81kb)
F. Gypsy and Traveller areas of search (3177kb)
G. Other or Mixed Use introduction (87kb)
H. Other or Mixed Use sites (7614kb)
I. Residential introduction (114kb)
J. Residential Greenfield Sites: Baldock, Barkway, Barley, Hitchin & Kimpton (6613kb)
K. Residential Greenfield Sites: Letchworth, Offley, Reed, Royston, Sandon, St Ippolyts & Whitwell (6640kb)
L. Residential Brownfield Sites: Ashwell, Baldock, Barkway, Barley, Hitchin & Ickleford (7837kb)
M. Residential Brownfield Sites: Kimpton, Letchworth, Offley, Royston & Therfield (6859kb)
Advertisement for Land Allocations Issues & Options (166kb)
Representation Form (39kb)
Map of all Baldock sites (1823kb)
Map of all Hitchin sites (3351kb)
Map of all Letchworth Garden City sites (3445kb)
Map of all Royston sites (1595kb)
In addition to the Land Allocations Issues & Options Paper, we are also consulting upon the Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SA/SEA) which has been carried out of all the sites included in the Issues & Options Paper.
The SA/SEA follows the methodology which was set out previously in the SA/SEA Scoping Report, published in September 2007:
Appendix 1 - PPPs September 2007
Appendix 2 - Baseline and sustainbility issues September 2007
