Make Your Voice Heard - Planning Policy for Traveller Sites

26 August 2011

Planning System Hearings between Travellers and Government are to be held across England in September and October:

Chris Johnson has kindly informed us, via our comments section, that a series of hearings are going to be held across England focusing on Planning for Traveller Sites by the Department for Communities and Local Government.

This is your cance to inform the Government about how you feel about the National Planning Policy for Travellers.

Oral hearings - Traveller site planning policy and National Planning Policy Framework
These hearings will focus on planning policy for Traveller sites in the context of the National Planning Policy Framework.

These will be in the following locations on the following dates:
        

  • London      Wednesday 7 September 2011 (4.30pm to 5.30pm)         
  • London      Wednesday 28 September 2011 (4.30pm to 5.30pm)         
  • Leeds           Thursday 8 September 2011 (12.45pm to 1.45pm)         
  • Birmingham      Tuesday 13 September 2011 (12.45pm to 1.45pm)         
  • Bristol         Thursday 15 September 2011 (12.45pm to 1.45pm)         
  • Manchester      Tuesday 4 October 2011 (12.45pm to 1.45pm)


Please note, the purpose of these hearings is to increase the accessibility of the consultation for those with poor literacy who would find it difficult to reply in writing to a consultation. The purpose of the oral hearings is, therefore, to let people tell us their views orally, which we will write down. These views will be considered in the same way as written responses to the consultation.
If you want to come to any of these hearings, please call Paul Williams on 0303 44 41223.

Workshops - National Planning Policy Framework
We are also running general consultation workshops on the National Planning Policy Framework. These are on the same dates and in the same places listed above. The timings for each of these workshops are:
       

  • London      Wednesday 7 September 2011 (2pm to 4pm)         
  • London       Wednesday 28 September (10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm)         
  • Leeds       Thursday 8 September (10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm)         
  • Birmingham      Tuesday 13 September (10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm)         
  • Bristol         Thursday 15 September (10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm)
  • Manchester      Tuesday 4 October (10.30am to 12.30pm and 2pm to 4pm)


There are still places available at over-subscribed events for those with an interest in planning policy for traveller sites.

If you want to come to any of these workshops, please call Paul Williams on 0303 44 41223.

Registration

If you would like to come to either the general Framework events or the traveller site planning policy events, please contact Paul Williams:
telephone: 0303 44 41223 email: paul.williams@communities.gsi.gov.uk post: Zone 1/G6, Eland House, Bressenden Place, London SW1E 5DU

Registration is needed for both types of events.

Further details on the general Framework events and the traveller site planning policy events should be on our website tomorrow at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/planningandbuilding/planningsystem/planningpolicy/planningpolicyframework/oralhearings/

Further details on the Government's draft National Planning Policy Framework can be found on our website at:

http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/draftframeworkconsultation

Questions
If you have any questions about anything, please call Paul Williams on 0303 44 41223.

Kind regards
Department for Communities and Local Government