Black Country Core Strategy Adopted February 2011 BLACK COUNTRY CORE STRATEGY Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council Walsall Council Wolverhampton City Council This is a Development Plan Document under Section 13 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004. The four authorities resolved to adopt the document on 3 rd February 2011 Please note that this document may be subject to minor changes for correction and presentation when printed. It is anticipated that the printed version will be available in April 2011 This and other Local Development Framework documents are or will be made available on request in large copy print, audio cassette, Braille or languages other than English. If you require the document in one of these formats please contact: Planning Policy Team, Directorate of the Urban Environment, 3 St James's Road, Dudley, DY1 1HZ or tel 01384 816967 or email
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[email protected] Arabic Bengali 2 Chinese Gujarati Punjabi Urdu 3 FOREWORD The Black Country Core Strategy: Our Distinctive Approach The Black Country forms a distinctive sub-region in terms of its economic history, settlement form and topography which has led to the 4 local authorities having a shared set of social, economic and environmental issues to respond to, often on a cross-boundary basis.