The Ryedale Plan

The Ryedale Plan: Local Plan Strategy. Implications of the release of the National Planning Policy Framework.

The District Council published the Ryedale Plan for consultation on the 25th January 2012. Since the consultation period ended on the 9th March, the Government has issued new national planning policy. This is called the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF).

The Ryedale Plan will need to be submitted to the Government for independent examination and scrutiny. Key elements of this process are to check that the Plan has been produced in a way which meets legal requirements and to ensure that it is consistent with national planning policy. Therefore, before the Council formally submits the Plan, it is undertaking a further period of consultation. This is to enable anyone with an interest to make representations on the implications that new national policy might have on the Ryedale Plan as published.

At this stage we are only looking for comments which you may wish to make as a direct result of changes to national policy. Any wider comments made will not be submitted along with the Plan for consideration as part of the examination process.

Therefore, if you did not make comments on the Plan during the January to March consultation, you should only make them now, if you believe that any change in national policy affects the Ryedale Plan to such an extent that it compels you to make a comment at this stage.

Similarly, if you are someone who made representations when the Plan was published you should only make further representations if you believe that new national policy has changed to the extent that this has further implications for the soundness of the Ryedale Plan. You do not have to repeat any representations you have already made if these related to consistency with national policy which is unchanged by the NPPF.

The District Council has considered the NPPF carefully and is of the view that the document has limited implications for the Ryedale Plan. It is considered that a limited number of relatively minor changes to specific areas of the Plan would enhance its alignment with new national policy. These are included in a schedule which the District Council has prepared and your views on these proposed changes are sought as part of this new consultation.

The published version of the Ryedale Plan and the schedule referred to above are available to view on the Council’s web-site: http://extranet.ryedale.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7087. The new National Planning Policy Framework and new national Planning Policy for traveller sites are available to view on the Communities and Local Government web-site: http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningsystem/planningpolicy/planningpolicyframework/ .

 If you wish to make representations as part of this additional consultation you should send them in writing to Charlotte Bogg at the address below or via email to ourfuture@ryedale.gov.uk. Representations must be received in writing before 5.00 pm on 17th May 2012.

If you wish to make representations please go to the Local Plan Strategy or Consultations page using the link below.

http://extranet.ryedale.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7111

The Local Plan Strategy (formerly known as the Core Strategy) was 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. Initial consutation ended on 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.