Consultation Portal

Consultation starts 23^rd May and runs until 8^thJuly 2011

The Core Strategy will set out strategic policies to guide development and change in County Durham over the next 20 years. As a result the Core Strategy will need to make important, and sometimes difficult, decisions and choices about how and where new development should be located. The structure and content of the Policy Directions document reflects the requirements of Government guidance for developing Core Strategies. It includes the following key components:

• An updated Spatial Vision and Strategic Objectives which set out the type of place we want County Durham to be in 2030.
• A summary of the emerging Spatial Strategy, including an indication of the future development of housing, employment land and shopping for all parts of the County with specific allocations for all main towns and secondary settlements;
• Identification of Strategic Sites that are crucial for the delivery of the Spatial Strategy, including in some cases a choice of alternative sites; and
• A ‘call for sites’ to identify potential Executive Housing sites.

How to get involved

Your views are very important to us and are taken into consideration when we prepare all of our new planning documents. You can provide us with your comments in a number of ways including by:

1. Using this interactive website - to make comments using this website you will need to register your details and then log in. To find out how to use our interactive website please take the site tour and if needed use the help menu (above).
2. You can also write to us using: FREEPOST PLANNING POLICY (thats all you need to write it is as simple as that!);
3. Email us at ldfconsultation@durham.gov.uk.

There will be 36 permanent and roaming exhibitions across the County during May and June.  Details of these events will be publicised in the local press and will be available on this website.  The exhibitions will be in each location for at least two weeks and staff will be available to answer your questions. Our supporting document section below contains a leaflet which contains details of all of our permanent and roaming exhibitions across the County.

How can I download a copy of this report and the other reports quickly?

Once they are all available, you will be able to download them and also a comments form (if you prefer to use a paper form to write or type your comments into) from our supporting document section below.

We hope you will enjoy reading this document and we look forward to receiving your views!