Preferred options consultation 2019

Background information about the consultation

Spelthorne must plan for 603 new homes per year over a 15-year period as part of the Government's aim to see more housing built.  The first consultation on the Local Plan took place in May and June 2018 and asked the public to consider options for how Spelthorne will meet its need for housing, gypsy and traveller pitches, employment sites and other uses.  The selection of sites follows the preferred strategy, following previous consultation, to maximise building on land in urban areas such as town centres, particularly Staines-upon-Thames, and to consider releasing some 'weakly performing' Green Belt for development.  This will enable the protection of the Borough's most important green spaces.  If we do not have a viable Local Plan it is much more difficult to control future developments.

Consultation response document

Consultation on the Spelthorne Local Plan Preferred Options document took place over 11- weeks between 5 November 2019 and 21 January 2020.  It took the form of Policies and Site Allocations documents setting out the preferred approaches to be considered. 

 The Council has published the  

 which sets out the responses to the Preferred Options consultation undertaken by Spelthorne Borough Council as part of its preparation of a new Local Plan. The responses to this consultation will be used by the Council to assist in preparing its Publication Local Plan (Regulation 19), the next stage of producing the new Plan. 

The individual consultation responses have now been published online consult.spelthorne.gov.uk.  Officers have not provided a response to each individual.  Please see the Consultation Response document for officer comments.