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Views invited on changes to the new Local Plan

Borough residents are being asked for their views on some possible changes to the draft Plan resulting from new information and from some of the comments that were received as part of the initial consultation. The new consultation begins on 1 June and will continue until midday on Friday 13 July 2012. 

The Council undertook a public consultation on the new draft Local Plan for the borough at the end of 2012 and received over 2700 comments from around 1200 people and organisations.  The Council will be considering responses to these comments and an amended version of the Local Plan in July 2012.

Local people are now being asked for their views on changes to the link between the construction of a Botley bypass and the housing development proposals, changes and additions to sites allocated for housing and some additional sites for development to create jobs.

Local people are also being asked for comments on draft technical documents that examine aspects of the draft Local Plan - the Sustainability Appraisal Report, Habitats Regulations Assessment and Transport Assessment.

The documents will be available online on the Council’s website and paper copies will be available at the Council’s Civic Offices and Eastleigh town centre office as well as at parish and town council offices and local libraries.  All people who previously commented will also receive a newsletter informing them of this new consultation and the opportunity to comment. 

Following this consultation, the Council will bring together all the comments made on both the draft consultations and prepare a revised version of the Local Plan for a formal consultation.  This will be the ‘pre-submission’ document, to be considered by the Cabinet and full Council on 26 July 2012.   The consultation on this document will start early in August and continue until early October.