What is a Statement of Community Involvement?
The Statement of Community Involvement sets out our approach to consultation and engagement during plan-making and in relation to planning applications and explains how residents, businesses and other organisations can engage with the planning process.
Why is a new Statement of Community Involvement required?
All councils are required to prepare and keep an up-to-date Statement of Community Involvement that clearly sets out the approach to consultation and engagement on planning matters.
Our current Statement of Community Involvement was adopted in 2012 and partially updated in 2020 to take account of government guidance in relation to Covid-19 at that time.
We have updated our Statement of Community Involvement to reflect further changes to national planning legislation relating to Covid-19. The current review of our Local Plan also presents a timely opportunity to update the document in full to ensure it reflects all areas of engagement in the planning process.