The South Worcestershire Councils (SWC) i.e. Malvern Hills, Worcester City and Wychavon are undertaking a further consultation as part of the South Worcestershire Development Plan Review (SWDPR).
Since the completion of the SWDPR Preferred Options consultation in December 2019, work has been progressing on the Publication version of the SWDPR, however, the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has impacted the ability of the SWC to collect evidence. An additional round of consultation is factored into the SWDPR timetable prior to Submission of the plan for Examination to allow for updates relating to the Sustainability Appraisal to be made available for consultation.
An updated Local Development Scheme (LDS) for 2020-2023 was approved by each local authority in September 2020 (effective from 1 October 2020). The 2020-2023 LDS includes an updated SWDPR timetable, which has moved back the Publication version of the plan to October/November 2021. This allows an additional further Regulation 18 (III) consultation to take place in order to provide greater clarification and updates to elements of the Sustainability Appraisal evidence base work.
Consultation Details
The public consultation will run for seven weeks from Monday 1 March to Monday 19 April 2021.
This consultation is focused on the Sustainability Appraisal and will be technical in nature:
- The consultation is not seeking views on an updated version of the SWDP Review.
- This stage is not a further opportunity to make comments on proposed site allocations or policies published in the SWDP Review Preferred Options (2019); any such comments will not be considered.
Therefore, the material published for this consultation only relates to updates to the Sustainability Appraisal evidence base.
Further details relating to the consultation, including how to comment, can be viewed on the SWDP Review Regulation 18 (III) consultation webpage using the following link: https://www.swdevelopmentplan.org/swdp-review/swdp-review-regulation-18-3-sa-consultation.
The SWC have also published the schedule of summaries of the responses made to the SWDP Review Preferred Options consultation, conducted in November and December 2019; this can be viewed on the SWDP Review Preferred Options webpage using the following link: https://www.swdevelopmentplan.org/swdp-review/swdp-review-preferred-options-consultation.