Object

Representation ID: 5071

Received: 20/12/2022

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Substantial failings taken in the approach to public consultation and engagement with key stakeholders. Withholding vitally important and key pieces of information (e.g. representation previously received 12 months ago by the LPA to the Autumn 2021 Preferred Options Stage Report public consultation) from the public domain, placing members of the public, community pressure groups, local businesses, rural landowners, Duty to Co-operate partners, and other key stakeholders at a considerable disadvantage when trying to respond to this latest November 2022 Publication Stage Report consultation.
Planning Policy webpage insufficiently clear. Impossible to locate Publication Stage Report (Regulation 19) (November 2022) public consultation document on the Council’s webpage.
It is near on impossible to locate the South Staffordshire District Council’s Publication Stage Report (November 2022) public consultation document on the Council’s Planning Policy webpage. In order to achieve effective public consultation, the document should be clearly viewable on the Council’s Planning Policy webpage. This is not the case.
The above issues will place local communities, the local South Staffordshire business community and other key stakeholders at a considerable disadvantage when trying to respond to the Plan.