District Council Local Plan: Strategy Examination

Amanda Willis Programme Officer for Lichfield District Local Plan South Council Council Offices Road WV8 1PX

21st July 2014

Dear Sir / Madam

Lichfield Local Plan Examination - Resumed hearing sessions

As you will know Lichfield District Council has consulted on its proposed main modifications to the Lichfield District Local Plan: Strategy (the Plan). Having considered the responses to these consultations the Inspector has decided that further hearing sessions are necessary to consider a number of main matters and issues. These are set out in the Annex 1 to this letter.

The hearing sessions will take place between Thursday 9th October and Friday 17th October 2014 in the Council Chamber at Lichfield District Council Offices. I will let you have a detailed programme in due course.

Guidance for participants is set out in the notes attached at Annex 2 to this letter. The Inspector has, however, asked me to stress that if you wish to appear at the hearings it would be extremely helpful if you were to prepare a hearing statement responding directly to the main matters and issues with which you are concerned rather than simply relying on your representations on the main modifications. Similarly, if you do not wish to appear, but want your responses to the main matters and issues identified by the Inspector to be considered, it would be useful if you made your points by way of additional written representations. Such hearing statements and additional written representations should be sent to me by 5pm Wednesday 3rd September 2014.

There is one further point I should deal with, some of you may also know that the Council’s decision to endorse the main modifications was the subject of a claim for judicial review. That claim was rejected. Further information on this can be found on the Examination website.

Yours faithfully A.Willis Amanda Willis Programme Officer

Lichfield District Council - Local Plan: Strategy Examination Amanda Willis - Programme Officer for Lichfield District Council Tel: 01902 696318 E-mail: [email protected]