SD33a - Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

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ALTERNATIVE SITE REGISTER 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 The Blaenau Gwent Local Development Plan was made available for public consultation for a 6 week period during May and June 2011. 1.2 In accordance with the Town and Country Planning (LDP) (Wales) Regulations 2005, the Council must now advertise any site allocation representation (Alternative Sites) as soon as reasonably practicable after the expiry of the consultation period. 1.3 The Regulations specify that a site allocation representation includes those that: - a. Add a site; b. Alter a site; or c. Delete a site previously allocated in the Deposit Draft Local Development Plan. 2.0 CONSULTATION PERIOD 2.1 The period for representations to be made in respect of any new or alternative site is 6 weeks. The consultation period commences on the Thursday 21 st July 2011. Comments must be made in writing by no later than noon on Thursday 1 st September 2011. Representations received after this time will not be accepted. 2.2 The process is necessary so that the Inspector can be confident that everyone affected has had the opportunity to comment before he/she makes a change to the Plan. 3.0 PURPOSE OF THE ALTERNATIVE SITES CONSULTATION 3.1 The purpose of this consultation is: - • To enable the general public to make representations to sites submitted by the public and other interested organisations during the Deposit Period. • To help assess whether any new sites should be included in the Local Development Plan as a result of representations made to the Deposit Draft LDP. • To examine whether there are satisfactory reasons why new sites have been brought forward at this stage of the process. • To provide an opportunity for the Council to consider any representations made to the Plan. 4.0 WHAT IS AN ALTERNATIVE SITE 4.1 Alternative sites are those sites proposed by representors during the Deposit Plan Consultation and are not Council proposed sites. 4.2 The Alternative Sites Register outlines the site allocation representations that were received from stakeholders during the Deposit Pan Consultation, which sought to either: - • Add a new site for a specified land use to the Deposit LDP • Alter the boundaries of a site allocated in the Deposit LDP or amend details of the site 1
ALTERNATIVE SITE REGISTER 2 • Delete a site allocated in the Deposit LDP • Amend the settlement boundary of the Deposit LDP 4.3 Representations seeking to amend designations in the Plan, such as Special Landscape Areas and Mineral Safeguarding Areas are not Alternative Sites. Where representations have been made in respect of non-site allocation policies, these will be considered by the independent Planning Inspector through the Examination of the Deposit Local Development Plan. 5.0 CONTENTS OF THE ALTERNATIVE SITES REGISTER 5.1 The Alternative Sites Register is structured into four parts as follows: PART A: New sites proposed to be included in the Local Development Plan PART B: Proposed amendments to existing LDP Allocations PART C: Sites proposed for deletion from the Local Development Plan PART D: Proposed amendments to the Settlement Boundaries in the Local Development Plan 5.2 It is important to note that some sites have been subject to multiple representations and appear in more than one part of the Register. 5.3 Part A: New sites are those which have been proposed to be included in the Deposit Plan for a particular use or development. 5.4 Part B: Representations seeking to amend the existing LDP Allocations are included in Part B. These representations either seek to put forward an alternative use of a site allocated in the Deposit Plan, (for example the proposal may be that a site allocated for housing in the Plan should rather be allocated for a community facility); or seek to amend the boundary of a site allocation in the Deposit Plan. 5.5 Part C: Representations seeking the deletion of a site allocated for a particular use in the Deposit Draft LDP are included in Part C of the register. 5.6 Part D: Representations seeking to amend the Settlement Boundaries shown in the Deposit Draft Local Development Plan are included in Part D. Representations essentially either seek to include additional land within the settlement boundary or conversely, to exclude an area of land currently shown within the settlement boundary. 6.0 PLOTTING OF ALTERNATIVE SITES 6.1 The Council has sought to identify the Alternative Sites contained in the Register on the basis of the information submitted by those individuals and organisations that have made representations to the Deposit Draft LDP. In a limited number of cases, the quality of the information provided by those making the representations has
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