Winchester District Local Plan 2020-2040: Regulation 19 Consultation
Overview
What is a Local Plan?
The Local Plan is the long-term plan for the Winchester District until 2040, outside the South Downs National Park. The Local Plan addresses a range of matters: the climate emergency, the highest standards possible for environmental design for homes and for commercial development, affordable housing, low carbon methods of transport and the natural and historic environment.
This Local Plan is a significant change to our previous plan and it has addressed some major challenges:
- The biggest challenge of all is climate change and this draft plan is setting the highest possible standards for environmental design for homes and commercial development and ensure that climate change and adaption are a central issue for the Local Plan.
- The plan takes a new approach to affordable housing targets – replacing an expectation for affordable housing with a requirement for truly affordable homes that developers must achieve.
- The plan takes the approach of ‘brownfield first’ – both in prioritising the use of previously developed land over green fields, but also in the phasing of development.
Why your views matter
We have prepared a Regulation 19 Proposed Submission Local Plan and we want to know what your views are. We have used the feedback received from our Regulation 18 and Strategic Issues and Priorities consultation to help shape the content of this plan.
We strongly recommend that you read the Regulation 19 Local Plan before you submit a response to this consultation. The local plan website includes the evidence base that has helped to inform the preparation of the plan, a summary of the topics in the Local Plan and links to the meetings that have taken place to discuss the Local Plan www.localplan.winchester.gov.uk
Why should I submit my comments via citizenspace?
It is extremely important that we accurately attribute any comments that we do receive to the correct policy, allocation or section of the Local Plan which is the main reason why we are encouraging people to submit their comments on citizenspace to ensure that this happens.
Please provide all the supporting information necessary to support your representation and your suggested modification(s). You should not assume that you will have a further opportunity to make submissions.
For ease of interpretation please be as descriptive as possible using the policy number, paragraph numbers and/or site names you are responding to and supporting evidence documents where relevant.
How to use citizenspace for this consultation?
What does 'soundness' mean?
Local Plans must be prepared in accordance with the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). The NPPF states that a Local Plan is 'sound' if it meets the following tests:
- Positively prepared - providing a strategy which, as a minimum, seeks to meet the area’s objectively assessed needs; and is informed by agreements with other authorities, so that unmet need from neighbouring areas is accommodated where it is practical to do so and is consistent with achieving sustainable development;
- Justified - an appropriate strategy, taking into account the reasonable alternatives, and based on proportionate evidence;
- Effective - deliverable over the plan period, and based on effective joint working on cross-boundary strategic matters that have been dealt with rather than deferred, as evidenced by the statement of common ground; and
- Consistent with national policy - enabling the delivery of sustainable development in accordance with the policies in the National Planning Policy Framework and other statements of national planning policy, where relevant.
You do not need to complete the survey all in one go – if you would like to start it but then come back to it at a later stage, the system gives you the option to save your answers and will email you with a link for you to come back and finish it later.
The 6 week public consultation closes 23:59 hours on Sunday 13th October 2024 so please remember to submit your comments before the deadline.
After the consultation closes, all responses received will be read and reviewed to ensure that they have been made in the proper way. We call these comments 'duly' made'. At this stage of the plan making process we will publish a summary of the main issues rasied in the consultation and forward this to the Planning Inspector.
If you would like to see the timetable for adopting the local plan please click on this link Local Development Scheme 2023 - Winchester City Council
What happens next
The Council will publish a summary of the main issues raised in the consultation, and all the representations made at this stage in the process will be forwarded to the Planning Inspector. It will then submit the Pre-Submission Local Plan, Integrated Impact Assessment and Habitats Regulations Assessment along with its Core Document Library and all the representations made on the Pre-Submission Plan to the Secretary of State for examination. The Government will appoint an Inspector to undertake an independent examination of the Local Plan. A Programme Officer will also be appointed at the time of submission who will be responsible for supporting the Inspector who will conduct the Local Plan examination.
The Inspector, following independent examination, will make recommendations to the Council on what happens next for the Local Plan. Further detail on the examination process can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/local-plans
The Council's website will be kept up to date as the Local Plan progresses.
Events
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Winchester Drop In Session
From 11 Sep 2024 at 15:00 to 11 Sep 2024 at 18:00Drop in session at The Nutshell Theatre.
Address: 15, Kings Walk, Winchester SO23 8AF -
Wickham Drop In Session
From 17 Sep 2024 at 15:30 to 17 Sep 2024 at 19:30Drop in session at Wickham Community Centre.
Address: Mill Ln, Wickham, Fareham PO17 5AL -
Sutton Scotney Drop In Session
From 25 Sep 2024 at 15:30 to 25 Sep 2024 at 19:30Drop in session at The Victoria Hall, Sutton Scotney.
Address: Wonston Cl, Sutton Scotney, Winchester SO21 3GX
Areas
- All Areas
Audiences
- Anyone from any background
Interests
- Strategic Planning
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