A huge thank you...

... to everyone who attended our series of workshops held in January. Over 1,000 people came out in all weathers to participate and pass on their views on the issues and options facing their areas over the next 20 years.

We have also been inundated with completed questionniares and emails/letters with your responses to our Issues and Options document.

How you had your say...

We received more than 400 responses through the online questionnaire on our website.

You also sent us  about 2,000 paper questionnaires,  letters and emails.

These need to be logged and summarised, and we will send acknowledgements as we do this. Please bear with us as this will take some months. 

We have produced some summaries of the key points made at the public workshops which give a flavour of the many and varied points raised.

Bishops Waltham - 8th January

Whiteley - 10th January

Denmead - 15th January

Alresford - 16th January

Winchester - 17th January

Littleton - 22nd January

Wickham - 24th January

What you can do next...

Winchester City Council is working with Hampshire County Council to develop an access plan for Winchester.

The plan will be aimed at shaping the way we move in and around the town and at making the best use of the highways and public spaces.

The results will also inform the Local Development Framework.

We are holding a public exhibition at the Saxon Suite - Winchester Guildhall - where you can drop in on the following dates to find out more:

You can also complete our online questionnaire(it's a lot shorter than the LDF one!)

Do you have a site to suggest?

The Site Allocations Development Plan Document will follow on from the core strategy.

Thank you to all those who have submitted sites for consideration already. The Council would still like to hear from landowners, developers, public authorities or individuals from the wider community who have sites to suggest for development.

We will continue to accept sites for consideration until 31st March 2008.

These will be subject to assessment to decide whether they should be included in a draft document to be published early 2009.

For more details click here

Affordable Housing Supplementary Planning Document

At its meeting on 5th February 2008 the Council's LDF Committee approved this document as a Supplementary Planning Document.

It sets out in detail the Council's affordable housing objectives and how to achieve them.

View the document

Proposed South Downs National Park

The Public Inquiry into the proposed South Downs National Park was reopened on Tuesday 12th February 2008, following further public consultation in relation to four specific issues.

For more information and a history of the Inquiry go to the Defra website

Next Steps

A document containing more detail and draft planning policies for the development of the district over the next 20 years will be published late summer 2008 for consultation.
Everyone who has provided us with their email address will automatically be informed of this, unless they have requested otherwise.

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