Wealden District Local Plan - Direction of Travel Consultation
Fletching Parish Council
Wealden District Council is preparing a new local plan for Wealden District. The Local Plan will provide policies to shape places, plan and manage growth in the district and guide development over a 15-20 year period. The Local Plan will ultimately be the key planning document against which WDC assess and make decisions on planning applications.
The Direction of Travel consultation is the first stage in their engagement process and they are keen to hear views at this early stage so that they can understand what is important to local communities including residents, businesses, voluntary organisations and Town and Parish Councils, as well as partner organisations and stakeholders.
Within the consultation document they have identified a number of key planning themes that they know they will need to address in the local plan. These themes include climate change, infrastructure, housing, the economy and employment, town centres, tourism, the natural environment, landscape, heritage and cultural assets, design and health and wellbeing. Under each of these themes they have identified what they think are the key challenges, opportunities and critical planning issues for the district and how these could be included in a new local plan. They have also set out some broad growth options for consideration as well.
Throughout their consultation document they ask a series of questions as well as provide an opportunity for people to tell them what they think on each planning theme. All of the responses they receive will be considered and they will use these along with national policy, legislation and guidance to help shape the Local Plan.
The consultation is running for a period of eight weeks from 9.00am Monday 23 November 2020 until midnight on Monday 18 January 2021.
For all the consultation documents and reports please follow this link:
Contact Information
Gabriella Paterson-Griggs, Clerk
- 07534 959772
Find Fletching Parish Council
Fletching, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 3SS
Additional Information
Our meetings are usually held in Fletching Village Hall, High Street, Fletching.