Local Plan Consultations
Your Place, Your Future, Your Say
Cheshire East is facing many challenges over the next twenty
years or so, including climate change, moving to a low carbon
and globalised economy and increased housing need. The Local
Plan will be a key part of the planning system in Cheshire East and
will form the basis of planning decisions in the Borough until
2030.
Details of previous and current consultations are shown on this
page. You might also like to look at the press and publicity page for links
to news articles on Local Plan consultations.
Current Consultation: Possible Additional Sites
As part of the production of the new Local Plan, we are
currently consulting on possible additional sites proposed by
developers and land interests.
Responses received to the recent Local Plan consultation in
January and February 2013 have revealed a number of possible
strategic sites that developers and landowners consider suitable
for inclusion in the Local Plan as well as other strategic sites
that have been brought to the attention of the Council in the past
few months as the plan-making process has progressed.
The purpose of this consultation is to give members of the
public and other interested parties a chance to have their say
about these new sites prior to the Council making a
decision on whether any of them should be included within the
Local Plan. These sites have either not previously featured
in Local Plan consultations or have changed significantly since
previous consultations.
Consultation runs from 3rd May to
30th May 2013. Printed versions of the document can be
inspected at all Cheshire East libraries, Delamere House in Crewe,
the Town Hall in Macclesfield and Westfields in Sandbach. Paper
copies of the comments form can also be collected at these
locations. However, the Council asks that consultation responses
are made online wherever possible to save time, paper and
money.
Future
Consultations
- Consultation on the draft Local Plan Core Strategy will take
place during Summer 2013.
Previous Consultations
Development Strategy and Policy
Principles (January / February 2013)
Consultation on the overall Development Strategy and Policy Principles
documents took place between 15th January and
26th February 2013 and all responses are currently being
considered. A full report of consultation will be produced
but in the meantime responses made can be viewed on our
consultation portal.
Town Strategy Phase 3 Consultations
(September 2012)
Following on from the Place Shaping
Consultation in 2011, Advisory Panels were formed in Crewe,
Macclesfield, Nantwich, Knutsford, Poynton, and Handforth.
Their members were drawn from the Town Councils (where applicable),
community partnerships, local businesses and community groups and
they produced draft Town
Strategies for each of these towns. Consultation took
place between 31st August and 1st October
2012. All comments have now been considered and
reports of consultation are available.
Wilmslow Vision Consultation (Town
Strategy Phase 2 Consultation) (April / May 2012)
Consultation on the draft Wilmslow
Vision ran from 1st April 2012 until 31st May
2012. Wilmslow Town Council has considered all comments
received and re-written the document accordingly as the Wilmslow Town Strategy.
Revised Local Plan Sustainability
Appraisal Scoping Report (March / April 2012)
An updated Sustainability Appraisal
Scoping Report has been produced to update the Scoping Report
produced in 2009. This updated Scoping Report takes account
of changes that have occurred to the planning system since 2009 and
to ensure that the social, environmental and economic issues
identified are up to date, and will be considered when
assessing policy documents. Consultation took place between
2nd March and 10th April 2012.
Following a review of comments made, the revised document and
report of consultation are now available.
Town Strategy Phase 1 Consultations
(March 2012)
Following on from the Place Shaping Consultation in 2011,
Advisory Panels were formed in Alsager, Congleton, Middlewich and
Sandbach. Their members were drawn from the Town Councils,
community partnerships, local businesses and community groups and
they produced draft Town Strategies for each of these towns.
Consultation took place between 2nd March
and 2nd April 2012. All comments have
been considered and revised Town
Strategies approved by each respective Town Council.
Minerals Issues Discussion Paper (March 2012)
The Minerals Issues Discussion
Paper follows on from the Core Strategy Issues and Options
consultation and Rural Issues Consultation which identified the
importance of mineral extraction in the Borough. Consultation
on the paper took place between 2nd March and
2nd April 2012 and gave the opportunity for those
with an interest in minerals planning in Cheshire East to offer
their views on how the Local Plan should approach key strategic
minerals planning issues. There was also an
opportunity to provide additional information on possible sites and
areas for future mineral working and safeguarding.
Following a review of comments made, a report of
consultation is now available.
Rural Issues Consultation (October / November 2011)
The survey accompanying the Cheshire East Rural Issues Summary
Document (PDF, 1.2MB) has now ended. We have
produced a Summary
Report of Rural Issues Consultation (PDF, 289KB).
Place Shaping Consultation (Summer / Autumn 2011)
The second major stage of the consultation on
the Local Plan was the Place Shaping Consultation which took
place between July and September 2011. During this time,
we worked with local communities, businesses and
stakeholders to understand the challenges facing each town or
village.
Further details and a full report of
consultation is available on the Place Shaping Consultation page.
Core Strategy Issues and Options Paper (November / December
2010)
The Issues and Options Paper looks at the overall strategy for
the future of Cheshire East, and asks some fundamental
questions about what we want Cheshire East to be like in 2030, how
much growth we should plan for and where new development should be
located.
Consultation on the Issues and Options Report took place between
8th November and 20th December 2010.
The consultation documents and full report of consultation are
available on the Core Strategy Issues and
Options Consultation page.
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