Dec 2010 - South Worcestershire Development Plan

SOUTH WORCESTERSHIRE ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT 201032South Worcestershire Joint Core Strategy (SWJCS) DPD4.12 The Issues and Options Paper was prepared over thesummer of 2007 with a statutory six-week period ofconsultation from 2 November until 14 December,although submissions were accepted up to 21 December2008. The aim of which was to formally start the debateabout big planning issues facing south Worcestershire.4.13 Consultation on the Preferred Options Report took placefrom 19 September to 31 October 2008. Consultation onthe Preferred Options for the Joint Core Strategy providesthe mechanism to consider the identification of broadlocations or strategic sites for growth to serve SouthWorcestershire, for plan making purposes and alsoprovides a vehicle for agreeing the extent and coverageof an associated Site Allocations DPD. A documentcontaining the Preferred Option responses to publicconsultation comments was published in late 2010 somesix months later than originally scheduled.200720084.14 During 2009 it was considered that the SWJCS wouldneed to defer its project timetable by nine months. Thiswas due to a number of technical issues as can beaccessed via the Meetings, Minutes and Agendas webpage dated 8 September 2009. A recommendation todefer the South Worcestershire Joint Core Strategy(SWJCS) was approved by all three Councils in autumn2009. It is now proposed that the final SWJCS will besubmitted to the Secretary of State in October 2010 asopposed to April 2010. The LDS has accordingly beenrevised and approved by all three councils to reflect thisnew timetable.2009