Our local councillors have forwarded the following information.
Residents are invited to air their views on the proposals for the Peterborough Core Strategy DPD. This is an important document that will establish the overall framework for growth and development in Peterborough up to 2021 and beyond.
The consultation on this document will start on 16 May 2008 and will end on 26 June 2008.
If you wish to submit any comments, please ensure that they reach PCC before the deadline, otherwise they may not be taken into account.
You can view this document in all the libraries in Peterborough’s administrative boundary (including mobile libraries) and at Bayard Place, Broadway, Peterborough during normal office hours. Forms for making representations and pre-paid reply envelopes will be available for collection from these venues. Please check opening times as these vary from library to library. The document is also available on the PCC website at
http://consult.peterborough.gov.uk
The council encourage that you respond to the document online via the web link. Your information is directly entered into their database and it makes it easier for them to analyse your comments and inform you of any future consultations. However, if you are unable to respond to them online, they are happy to receive your representation through the post.
The Core Strategy will be one of the most significant planning documents for Peterborough’s future. Its strategy and policies have to be in line with the framework set by the East of England Plan, which has set targets for growth in Peterborough of at least 25,000 additional homes and 20,000 additional jobs between 2001 and 2021, with a requirement for continuity of supply of new homes beyond that date.
There are five main elements to the Core Strategy:
- An overall vision setting out how the area is expected to change over the plan period.
- A set of overall objectives outlining the main policy directions that need to be pursued in order to realise the vision.
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A spatial strategy and a series of core policies for addressing the vision and objectives; these will provide the basic structure for promoting development in some places, restricting it in others, informing and co-ordinating investment, and establishing the framework for detailed policies and proposals to be developed in subsequent documents.
Please note that the Core Strategy is strategic in nature. It will not set out detailed policies and it will not identify individual parcels of land for development or protection or improvement. These are the functions of subsequent documents that will make up Peterborough’s Local Development Framework, in conformity with the Core Strategy.
The Core Strategy has now reached a stage known as ‘Preferred Options’. This is a stage where the Council outline their preferred options, having considered all the evidence gathered through studies and previous consultations. In their Preferred Options document, they outline other options considered and the reasons for selecting those that are preferred.
You may be interested to know that the Core Strategy Preferred Options document has been subject to independent sustainability appraisal. A separate Sustainability Appraisal Report is available at the libraries and Bayard Place, and on the PCC website, via
www.peterborough.gov.uk/page-5184.
As part of the consultation process, PCC have arranged a number of exhibitions at various locations. Details of these are set out below.
Venue |
Date and Time |
New Link, Lincoln Road, Millfield |
19th May 2pm – 4.30pm |
Sainsbury’s, Bretton |
20th May 12 noon – 6.30pm |
Manor Farm Community Centre, Eye |
21st May 2pm – 7.30pm |
Orton Waterville Village Hall |
22nd May 2pm – 6.30pm |
Serpentine Green Shopping Centre, Hampton |
27th May 10am – 7.30pm |
Queensgate Shopping Centre, Peterborough City Centre |
29th May 8am – 8pm |
Werrington Village Centre, Church Street, Werrington |
30th May 2pm – 7.30pm |
Wittering Village Hall, Townsend Road, Wittering |
2nd June 2pm – 7.30pm |
Thorney Community Centre, Tank Yard, Thorney |
3rd June 2pm – 7.30pm |
| Peterborough College of Adult Education, Brook Street |
4th June 10am – 3.00pm
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St Barnabas, Taverners Road, Gladstone |
5th June 2pm – 7.30pm |
Stanground Community Centre, Whittlesey Road |
6th June 4.30pm – 7.30pm |
Glinton Village Hall, High Street, Glinton |
13th June 2pm – 7.30pm |
Once they have received and considered comments on this Preferred Options document, they will proceed to prepare a version of the Core Strategy for submission to Government, taking into account everything they have heard. The document must pass through various stages after that before it can finally be adopted by the Council.
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