The Ryedale Plan

The Local Plan Strategy (formerly known as the Core Strategy) has now been published for consultation between 25 January 2012 until 4:30pm, 9 March 2012. This is the version of the plan that the Council expects to submit to an independent Planning Inspector for examination. Representations received during this consultation will be considered by the Inspector as part of the Examination process. Details of the plan and how to make representations are available on the Local Plan Strategy page.

Ryedale District Council and the North York Moors National Park Authority are working jointly to produce the Helmsley Plan, which will allocate sites in Helmsley for the development of new housing and employment land over the next 15 years as well as providing site specific planning policy for Helmsley. We are seeking your views until Friday, 2 March 2012 on the broad approach of the Helmsley Plan as set out in the Discussion Paper.  A draft of the Helmsley Plan is expected to be published for consultation before the end of 2012.

The Council has prepared a draft Site Selection Methodology (SSM) which will inform the selection of sites for allocation through the Sites and Helmsley Development Plan Documents.  It is a tool for Officers to objectively assess sites submitted to the Council to enable informed choices to be made on the selection of sites. We are seeking your views on the broad approach of the proposed SSM. Consultation was undertaken in Autumn 2011. The Council will now make amendements to the SSM in light of comments made and the latest version of the Local Plan - Strategy. A final draft is expected to be published in Spring 2012.

Sites submitted to the Council are available to view in the Sites Document and Helmsley Plan sections. Whilst we cannot have a formal deadline for the submission of sites, it is necessary to have some form of 'line in the sand', given the need to manage this complex process and to ensure that sites are given fair and equal consideration. We set the 'line in the sand' as 5 November 2010, sites that are submitted to us after the 5 November 2010 will need to provide the commensurate level of information already undertaken by the Council at the time the site is submitted to us. We welcome your comments on the sites.