Key dates set for public examination into West Devon Core Strategy

By katef1 | Saturday, August 14, 2010, 11:24

Key dates have now been set for the independent public examination into West Devon’s Core Strategy Development Plan Document.

The examination, led by the inspector Mr Paul Crysell, will start on Tuesday November 16 at West Devon Borough Council’s Kilworthy Park offices in Tavistock. The public hearings are expected to be completed by Thursday November 25. These are meetings which are open to the public although only those invited to take part will be allowed to speak.

Mr Crysell, who is carrying out the examination on behalf of the Secretary of State, will be holding a pre-hearing meeting on Thursday September 16 at the Borough Council’s offices, to explain how he intends to organise and conduct the hearing sessions.

This meeting will be mainly confined to the inspector explaining his role and there will be no opportunity to discuss the Core Strategy itself.

All enquiries relating to the Core Strategy public examination should be sent to the Programme Officer Audrey Henderson who can be contacted by email at programmeofficer@westdevon.gov.uk by telephone on 01822 813556, or by post at West Devon Borough Council, Kilworthy Park, Tavistock, PL19 0BZ. More information is available on the Council’s website www.westdevon.gov.uk/strategicplanning

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West Devon Borough Council (whose core strategy it is) have a website. If you are likely to be concerned by anything they do, its a good idea to get familiar with that website so you can see what they are up to.

On the website there is a section called Strategic Planning. At each stage of the evolution of this Core Straegy there has been the opportunity to register objections and any other comments about it via their Planning Portal.
http://tinyurl.com/2etpl5u

Many individuals, developers & other interested parties have done just that.. The Core Strategy, all its supporting 'evidence' and all of the objections raised thus far are still there to see. That side of the process has been fairly open once you realised where it all was.

The last of these periods of consultation was for 6 weeks from the end of April until early June and concerned a series of changes that the council had asked the planning committee to make to the plan. It was at their meeting held after this consultation period where the members of the Future Planning & Housing committee were shamefully 're-jigged' to get the vote approving these changes passed. If that vote had failed they'd have had to return it all to the full council for further consideration. Unfortunately with their substitutions they managed to avoid that inconvenience.Anyhow, if you registered your objections via the Portal (or by post) during that consultation period you could also simultaneously request the opportunity to present those objections in person to the Government Inspector when he came to examine the proposals for soundness. He's coming in November. I'm not sure whether you can still get to raise your points in person at the enquiry. It may still be possible. You'd need to ask WDBC to add your name & details of your objection to the list that he'll have to work through.

You'll see however if & when you start to read through the core strategy and indeed the objections to it that the arguments have to be more well founded than 'it'll spoil my view' etc.

By murrayjohnson at 17:44 on 22/09/10
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What last round of public consultation? No leaflet from the council through my door! Oh.... it was in the Tavi Times, and we all read that don't we!?

If they really wanted our opinions they would have come to everyone of us, but they don't. They just want to push it through.

See the subject '10 reasons why not to build in the Tavy Valley' I posted today, 22/09/2010

By kyloe at 11:53 on 22/09/10
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This is not about objection, it goes deeper than that. It is now about soundness of the plan. Any objection should have been translated by your elected representative into just that, much earlier then this. But as most seem to abstain or swap with someone or even mishear, when representing those people who look to them to consolidate the electorate's view. What hope is there? West Devon Borough Council must be laughing in their sleeves.

By pobox112 at 02:34 on 22/09/10
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The enquiry will allow people who raised objections during the last round public consultation and who expressed the desire to speak in person at the enquiry to participate. So, to be fair, everyone concerned has had the opportunity to register to speak directly to the planning inspector.

By murrayjohnson at 08:52 on 21/09/10
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It will be puppet managed. There are certainly enough puppets for that to happen. The people of Tavistock have already spoken and have been completely ignored. We do live in a democracy but that does not include being listened to or heard. West Devon Borough Council have let the people down already in its total compliance and weakness with a previous incompetent government.

By pobox112 at 12:37 on 14/08/10
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