Have your say on the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) consultation

Information

This consultation is open from 12pm on 20 November 2023 until 5pm on 2 January 2024

The purpose of the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) is to set out how and when the council will engage and undertake consultation on planning policy documents and how the community can become involved.

About the SCI

The current SCI was adopted in December 2019, planning legislation states that it must be reviewed every five years from its date of adoption. It is considered that amendments to the 2019 SCI are required to reflect the following:

  • due to the Local Plan update
  • to promote the new and increasingly standard digital communications within planning
  • to highlight the council's new Inclusive Communities Framework

The SCI will be published for consultation on 20th November 2023 for a period of six weeks until 2nd January 2024. Details on when and how to make comments are outlined below. Following the close of the consultation period, we will consider your comments to help inform any final modifications to the SCI prior to its formal adoption.

How to take part in the consultation

Please read the Draft Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) before leaving your feedback.

Leave your comments on our Planning Consultations website

After you've commented

We will consider your comments to help inform any final modifications to the SCI prior to its formal adoption.

All responses will be publicly available and cannot be treated as confidential (including submitted evidence). All representations will be processed in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2018. Anonymous representations will not be accepted.

Contact us

If you are not using the online consultation system, you can contact us with your comments. Hard copies are also available on request.

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