CITY PLAN
The City Council is preparing a new development plan that will guide the regeneration of Gloucester to 2031 and we are currently seeking your views on what should included in the plan.
The City Plan is all about defining and delivering the Vision for Vision for Gloucester| for the next twenty years. Gloucester has been undergoing some very significant changes with a number of major regeneration schemes and a large urban extension well underway. However, the City Plan is about more than physical regeneration - it is about setting out our aspiration for the whole City and its people and is about enabling Gloucester to reach its full potential.
The City Plan will sit underneath the Joint Core Strategy| (which will set out strategic planning policy such as how much development needs to be provided in the City), setting out where and when major regeneration schemes are expected to come forward and identify sites for new homes, jobs and shopping. It will provide a framework for managing and enhancing the wider City's historic and natural environment, including open space, areas of recreation and leisure and areas for environmental protection.
Part 1 of the City Plan is currently subject to public consultation. Further consultations relating the potential sites and policies will be published throughout 2012. Further information is provided under 'Next Steps' below.
CITY PLAN PART 1: PUBLIC CONSULTATION
Part 1 of the City Plan will set out the the context for the City Plan. It will, amongst other things, establish the main challenges facing the City, a strategy for development and the key development principles from which the policy for the City Plan will evolve.
A draft 'Part 1' is currently subject to a six week period of public consultation between Monday 19th March and Monday 30th April 2012. The consultation document and supporting information can be downloaded by clicking on the links below. Alternatively, hard copies have been made available in all Gloucester libraries, and at the Guildhall and Tourist Information Centre.
- City Plan Part 1: Consultation document
|- City Plan Part 1: Sustainability Appraisal Statement|
Making comments
You may make comments via the following methods:
- Online response form
|- Hard copy response form (PDF)
|- Hard copy response form (MS Word)
|- Email spatialplanning@gloucester.gov.uk|
- Writing to the address below
Comments must be made in writing and cannot be kept confidential. Comments must be received by the City Council no later than midnight Monday 30th April 2012.
Further information
For further information regarding this consultation please email spatialplanning@gloucester.gov.uk|, telephone 01452 396836 or write to:
Planning Policy Service
Herbert Warehouse
The Docks
Gloucester
GL1 2EQ
CITY PLAN - PROGRESS TO DATE
City Plan Scope - Consultation now closed
The City Plan Scope was published for a three month public consultation between 23rd May and 26th August 2010. To download the City Plan Scope consultation document, and the subsequent consultation report, click on the relevant link below.
- City Plan Scope - consultation document| (May 2011)
- City Plan Scope - Consultation Report| (October 2011)
NEXT STEPS
City Plan Part 2: Places and sites
(Public consultation June 2012)
Part two will identify development sites to meet the City’s growth requirements as well as areas that will be protected from development. There will be a proposals map for the city and, in addition, the city will be broken down into areas.
City Plan Part 3: Policies
(Public consultation December 2012)
Part three will provide generic policies to guide development. These will take account of the emerging National Planning Policy Framework, the 2006 Local Development Framework polices and the policy framework for the Joint Core Strategy.
City Plan Part 4: Delivery
(Public consultation to be confirmed)
Part 4 will focus on delivery and provision of an infrastructure plan to support the growth agenda for the City as well as monitoring to measure success in delivery of the plan’s outcomes. In addition this section will outline City Plan’s role in neighbourhood planning.
It is anticipated a draft plan will be available at the end of 2012.
Last Modified: Friday 16 March 2012