Berkhamsted Town Council 22 November 2017 Useful information for residents regarding Dacorum Borough Council Local Plan Issues and Options Consultation 1 November 2017 – 13 December 2017 1. Reply by 23.59 hrs on Wednesday 13 December 2017. By post Strategic Planning and Regeneration, Dacorum Borough Council, The Forum, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, HP1 IDN. By email [email protected]; On-line at https://dacorum-consult.objective.co.uk/portal/planning/lp/io/io You can answer as many or as few questions as you wish. 2. Finding the consultation document on–line: http://www.dacorum.gov.uk/home/planning- development/planning-strategic-planning/new-single-local-plan; This link takes you to the page with the links to the four documents that make up the local plan papers. Scroll down half a page to find them. 3. This consultation is the first stage of the process but arguably the most important. There will be further consultations in Spring 2018 (called the Pre-Submission (Publication) Plan) and in early 2019 during the Independent Examination in early 2019. 4. The first document is called Issues and Options Consultation. You may be particularly interested in issues such as infrastructure (pages 77-84); Our environment (pages 67) and very importantly the three options for accommodating growth (pages 87 and following). Page 94 includes a table summarising the numbers in each growth option and pages following describe each option with maps showing the proposed numbers at each settlement for each option. 5. The second document Schedule of Site Appraisals Sustainability Appraisals Working Note by consultants TRL contains on page 5 a summary of assessment of all Green Belt/Rural Sites. The key to this chart is on page 4. 6. Specific sites for development in the Green Belt within Berkhamsted and Northchurch are proposed in the third document called Schedule of Site Appraisals . The 8 sites are Land at Berkhamsted South; Haslam Fields, Shootersway; Land at Ivy House Lane; Land between Durrants Lane / Darrs Lane / Bell Lane; Land at Lockfield, New Road; Land adj. to Blegberry Gardens, Shootersway; Land at Bank Mill; Berkhamsted Golf Range, Spring Garden Lane. See reports on pages 34 - 69. 7. The fourth document Issues and Options Consultation Sustainability Appraisal Working Note is a further report by TRL. 8. Paper copies of all the documents are in libraries and at Dacorum Borough Council offices. 9. The documentation covers the whole Borough and residents are welcome to comment on all proposals, not just Berkhamsted. 10. There are difficult decisions to make. If the Borough does not submit an acceptable plan to the Planning Inspectorate, housing numbers will be imposed. ******************************************************** .