Object

Representation ID: 5073

Received: 20/12/2022

Respondent: Goldfinch TPS

Agent: Goldfinch TPS

Legally compliant? No

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? No

Local communities, Duty-to-co-operate contacts and other key stakeholders have been fully obstructed by the LPA from viewing the earlier Representations made by respondents to the Autumn 2021 Preferred Options Stage Report earlier public consultation stage, which closed 12 months ago on the 13th December 2021.
The Council has failed to place the Representations received to the earlier Autumn 2021 public consultation stage for the Preferred Options Stage Report (November 2021) Local Plan consultation which closed on the 13th December 2021 within the public domain. This is not a proper, fair and reasonable way for a Local Planning Authority to conduct a Local Plan Review, and is in direct conflict with the approach expected by paragraph 16 (indent c) of the Revised NPPF (2021).
This highly obstructive approach taken towards Local Plan preparation (by fully withholding key pieces of information from the public domain over an extended 12 month period – e.g. fully withholding all of the Preferred Options Report (November 2021) Representations from the public domain during the last 12 months) has placed Duty-to-co-operate partners and the other key stakeholders referred to above at a considerable disadvantage when trying to respond to this latest Autumn 2022 Regulation 19 public consultation stage.
This underlines the ongoing failure and continued incompetence of the Council in relation to its approach taken towards Local Plan-preparation and its failure to sufficiently involve key stakeholder in the Local Plan making process.
As a planning consultancy and key stakeholder, we strongly object to the way that we have been obstructed and totally excluded from the Local Plan making process by the Council, by not being able to view the earlier Representations made to the earlier Preferred Options Stage Report (November 2021) public consultation