Further Consultation on Preferred Options

This further consultation at the Preferred Options stage of the documents' production was undertaken to address the deficiencies identified by GOEM (Government Office for the East Midlands) at the Preferred Options consultation held in August-October 2006.  GOEM were critical of the Core Strategy and advised that the document may be unsound because of what it regarded as a lack of a spatial strategy and the need to have explored and consulted on alternative spatial strategies.  The identification of these deficiencies is a consequence of emerging clarification and advice associated on with the new development plan system.  

In order to address concerns about the Core Strategies raised through the consultation the Council has produced two further documents; a Waste Spatial Strategy and a Minerals Spatial Strategy.   It is on these two documents that the council is inviting comments.  These documents do not identify individual sites and there is no need to repeat representations previously made on the Preferred Options documents.  Details on the next stages of consultation and document production.

Responses may be made by sending an email to: planningcontrol@leics.gov.uk, or by letter addressed to the Director of Community Services, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8TE.   

Prior to any documents going out for consultation the two documents went before the County Council's Cabinet for approval.  The Waste and Minerals Development Frameworks were considered and approved by Cabinet on 11th September 2007.  The agenda and minutes of the Cabinet meeting can be found via the link below.

The County Council placed an advert in the local papers on the week ending 19th September 2007 advertising the further consultation on the preferred options.  Advert placed on this further consultation.

The consultation ran for 6 weeks, from 19th October 2007 to 30th November 2007.  The documents consulted on are available to view below:

Representations could be made either in writing or electronically.  The form below can be printed for your use but cannot be filled in on-line.

Responses were made to the Council via a variety of ways; by letter, be using our response forms (minerals response form and waste response form) or our electronic response form.  Responses received are available below, categorised by organisation making the response or grouped by the main issue to which the response was about.

(All documents below are PDF's)

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The response from GOEM will be published upon receiving an amended version of their representation.