The Council submitted its' minerals and waste core strategy and development control policies documents to the Secretary of State on the 23rd June 2008.  Consultation on the documents ran until 5pm on 4th August 2008.  A page has been created for the examination that will take place on the documents.

Prior to any documents going out for consultation the two documents went before the County Council's Cabinet on 8th April 2008 for approval to be forwarded to the Council's Environment and Overview Scrutiny Commitee.  The documents were considered by Scrutiny on 15th April 2008 and were sent back to Cabinet on the 6th May 2008 for final approval to be passed to full Council.  The documents are scheduled to go to the Council meeting on 21 May 2008.  Minutes of the meetings can all be found via the link below.

The County Council placed an advert in the local papers on the week ending 20th June 2008 advertising the submission consultation.  Click here for the advert placed on the submission consultation.

Sustainability Appraisal Reports and their non technical summaries can be found by following the link below

Other documents have been published forming the evidence base for the Core Strategy documents.  These are located on the Minerals and Waste Development Framework pages (in the green column on the left hand side of this page) or via the links below.

Also, the Council has produced a document in which it is explained how and who was consulted at the Issues and Options and Preferred Options consultations and tables explaining how comments made have been used to produce the next stages documents.  This document deals solely with the Core Strategy and Development Control Policies documents, sustainability appraisal comments and responses are on the Sustainability Appraisal page (link below).  

Sustainability Appraisal Representations and Responses

The Council has also tabulated the new policies published in the submission documents and how they relate to the existing extant Local Plan policies or if they are new policies.  Submission Policies relationship to the extant Local Plan Policies

Representations could be made either in written or electronic forms.  Both forms can be viewed below along with accompanying notes on making representations and the tests of soundness, and a Planning Inspectorate Plain English Guide to the examination process.

Responses should be sent either electroncially to: planningcontrol@leics.gov.uk, or by letter addressed to the Planning Group, Community Services, County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8TE.   

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.