Spelthorne Council's Cabinet met on 25 September to discuss the next stage in producing a new Local Plan for the Borough. The Preferred Options consultation will run from Tuesday 5 November 2019 to Tuesday 7 January 2020 and there will be a range of public events to provide further information.
Information about the Local Plan will be communicated in a number of ways to ensure all residents have the information available to them. If you register on the Council’s consultation portal at https://consult.spelthorne.gov.uk for updates you will receive an email or letter notifying you when the consultation begins. The Bulletin, distributed to residents in the first week of December, will be a bumper edition with 8 pages of Local Plan news.
Spelthorne must plan for 603 new homes per year over a 15-year period as part of the Government's aim to see more housing built. The first consultation on the Local Plan took place in May and June last year and asked the public to consider options for how Spelthorne will meet its need for housing, gypsy and traveller pitches, employment sites and other uses. The next stage will be to set out draft policies for the new plan and proposed sites across the Borough to be allocated for development. The selection of sites follows the preferred strategy, following previous consultation, to maximise building on land in urban areas such as town centres, particularly Staines-upon-Thames, and to consider releasing some 'weakly performing' Green Belt for development. This will enable the protection of the Borough's most important green spaces. If the Council does not have a viable Local Plan it will be much more difficult to control future developments.
Please make sure you read our autumn newsletter which will be distributed to all households in Lower Sunbury shortly after the commencement date, 5th November. It may also be read online at www.losra.org after that date.
