Our Committment

We are committed to the following eight steps.

Building confidence – an open dialogue with developers that builds trust – pre-application meetings and Councillor presentations

Professionalism – providing prompt planning and other technical advice to the highest standards.

Managing projects together – Using a three stage Strategic Sites Manual to make the process easier.

Adding value in design – the Council is a national leader in the use of stakeholder design workshops. All significant development proposals are tackled in this way

Helping applicants – using a clear validation checklist PDF for major applicants

Speeding legal agreements – applicants are asked to submit Heads of Terms with applications. We encourage draft legal agreements to be in place before committee (costs are at the applicants’ risk)

Scheme delivery and financial appraisal – where appropriate we encourage an open book approach and where viability is marginal have pioneered a ‘deferred contributions’ approach

Strategic Sites Manual - This manual (Strategic Sites Manual 79.1Kb PDF) is a working tool for applicants and the local authorities setting out in easy stages what is needed when. Its a simple project management tool that we will commit to using and we encourage applicants to do the same

For any further information please contact our Planning Enquiries Team.

This webpage was updated on 9/3/2010

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