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Cheshire East Local Development Framework Place Shaping Consultation

Cheshire East Local Development Framework Place Shaping Consultation. Welcome. Councillor David Brown Portfolio Holder for Performance and Capacity. Overview. What is the Local Development Framework? Place Shaping Consultation Your Place activity What is your role in the consultation?.

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Cheshire East Local Development Framework Place Shaping Consultation

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  1. Cheshire East Local Development Framework Place Shaping Consultation

  2. Welcome Councillor David Brown Portfolio Holder for Performance and Capacity

  3. Overview What is the Local Development Framework? Place Shaping Consultation Your Place activity What is your role in the consultation?

  4. What is the Local Development Framework? • The new development plan for Cheshire East outside the Peak District National Park • It will replace the regional, county and Local Plans • It will contain a Core Strategy and a Site Allocations document • An Infrastructure Plan will set out transport and social infrastructure (eg schools) required

  5. Role of the Local Development Framework • It will be the statutory development plan for Cheshire East • It will be the Council's formally adopted plan governing the future development of the area • It has to be prepared in accordance with legal procedures including public consultation and a public examination

  6. What will the Core Strategy contain? • An overall strategy for the future development of the Borough for the next 20 years or so. • It will identify • how much development is needed, • where it should be focused and • which areas should be protected

  7. What will the Policies and Sites Plan contain? • Policies to protect and enhance green infrastructure and environmental assets • Allocations for new housing, employment and retail development • Rural exception policy for affordable housing • An Infrastructure Plan setting out improvements required and how they will be programmed alongside the development • Detailed policies setting out the factors to be considered when determining planning applications

  8. How is the LDF being prepared? Background evidence: • Housing studies • Employment Land Review • Retail Study • Green Space Assessment • Transport assessments • Waste and minerals assessments Also Council strategies provide context e.g Sustainable Community Strategy, Economic Development , Housing, Local Transport Plan etc

  9. Timescales for preparing LDF

  10. Place Shaping Consultation • We want to work in the spirit of Neighbourhood Planning to develop a plan for each town which will feed into the LDF • We will look at • Challenges • Opportunities • Constraints • Infrastructure

  11. Place Shaping Consultation • We want to work closely with local communities, businesses and stakeholders to understand what the challenges are for each town or village • We will work with the community to understand constraints and to develop and assess options for the plan for the town • We will ensure that in combination the plans deliver the future needs for the Borough as a whole and comply with legislation

  12. Our Smaller Communities • Consultation focuses on Crewe, Macclesfield and Key Service Centres where most growth will take place • Also a need for a dialogue with smaller towns and villages • For Parish Councils which - have areas where new development/redevelopment might be encouraged - want to change existing local plan designations - identify new community infrastructure requirements we will work together to produce village plans

  13. LAP Assemblies • Macclesfield Town Hall 5 July • Nantwich, Malbank High School 6 July • Crewe Alex 11 July • Congleton Town Hall 13 July All 6.30 – 8.30 Rural Stakeholder Workshop date tbc - this will look at the overall future policy approach to the countryside and rural settlements to be included in the LDF

  14. Community Exhibitions • 18th July Alsager Civic Centre • 19th July Middlewich Civic Hall • 20th July Congleton Town Hall • 21st July Sandbach Town Hall • 5th September Poynton Civic Hall • 6th September Wilmslow Library • 8th September Knutsford Civic Centre • 9th September The Heritage Centre • 12th September Nantwich Civic Hall • 13th September Handforth Library • 15th September Crewe Library • 21st September Shavington St Johns Church Hall

  15. Consultation Material • Snapshot Report • Leaflet • Questionnaire • Your Place Activity Pack • Follow us on….

  16. All the reports will be available to view and comment on at: • Libraries and Customer Service Centres • www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/ldf • Email: ldfconsultation@cheshireeast.gov.uk

  17. Your Place A serious exercise to share with your group that has been designed to be thought provoking and fun An activity pack with six characters that live in your community. Think about what type of place they and you may want to live in.

  18. Discussion What is your role in the Place Shaping consultation? • How can you publicise the consultation? • How can you encourage a discussion about the planning of the town or village as a whole • How do you deal with single interest groups?

  19. Questions

  20. Thank You

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