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Early Options for site allocations and site allocation policy

Consultation under Regulation 25 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004. This consultation closed on 18 October 2006.

Maps of each site are available on the Council's online mapping service PlanAccess. A searchable database of sites is also available.

Everybody that has an interest in the location and type of future development in Wokingham Borough had a chance to influence site allocations and policy to 2026.

Policies

The questionnaire explores ideas about:

the future settlement boundaries (now called development limits) -development outside these areas is generally resisted
green gap and wedge boundaries
Green Belt boundaries
the direction of policies for:
timing of development
necessary infrastructure to support development and to deliver services such as health and schools
ensuring a diversity of wildlife is achieved
how buildings and development areas might be made more sustainable

The guidance note for the questionnaire explains terms used

Sites

As part of the Local Development Framework process the Council invited people to tell it where necessary development should go within the district. Over 200 sites have been submitted. This is many more than will be needed.

This is the first opportunity to comment on these sites. The Council has not at this stage made up its mind which sites will be selected for its draft Site Allocations DPD.

What happens next?

The Council will consider what you have said. The Council will then select a preferred option for sites and policies and say what other options have been considered. Only sites that best meet national policy, the Council's Core Strategy and the comments received during public consultations will be chosen to go into a draft Site Allocations DPD.

There will be a further opportunity to comment at the preferred option stage.

As part of the Early Options, the Council has produced a number of documents. These are listed below and are attached at the end of this page.

Initial Options for the Site Allocations Development Plan Document;
Response form for Initial Options for the Site Allocations Development Plan Document;
Guidance Note for Response Form;
Analysis of the Initial Options for the Site Allocations Development Plan Document;
Statement of Consultation of Settlement Boundary Review
Settlement Boundary Review Approach;
Green Gap Review by Chris Blandford Associates;
Employment Land Study;
Baseline Sustainability Appraisal of the Site Allocations Development Plan Document;
Sustainability Appraisal of the Initial Options for Site Allocation - policies;
Sustainability Appraisal of the Initial Options for Site Allocation - sites; and
Statement of Consultation on the draft Scoping Report on the Sustainability Appraisal.