The council held a consultation in Spring 2008 (second stage). The consultation was available to the general public through the website and all households in the borough received notification of the consultation through Serving You Summer 2008. In respect of the Core Strategy Preferred Options we received 2205 comments from 201 different people. 

 

The various comments were collated and can be found in the document above.  However the outcome of this consultation was largely superseded by events. In June 2008 the government changed the way that it wanted Core Strategies to be produced.  Counsel opinion was sought over whether to take the existing Core Strategy forward for submission or to start again taking into consideration all the legislative changes.  This led to the council redrafting the Core Strategy.  The new Draft Core Strategy was published in June 2009 and following consultation on this document a final 'Pre-Submission' Core Strategy will be produced. Further details on the Core Strategy timetable can be found on the agreed Local Development Scheme.

In accordance with our Statement of Community Involvement in which we have undertaken to publish all comments received, the document includes all the comments made.  However as we were unable to take the documents forward we have not provided our usual detailed response.  As there are such a large number of representations the tables exclude those individuals who confirmed their support or made an objection but did not make a comment.