Currently the project team is working hard to adjust the plan following the consultation earlier this year. We plan for this to be delivered to the District Council in November. We are on schedule but there is still much work to be done.
The parish’s own Plan will help to control unwelcome development locally.
Following the plan’s submission to SDC it then makes its way to a referendum managed by the District Council. We are concerned that the Council have indicated that this could take up to a further year. We understand that a plan that has been through a referendum is then a statutory plan, and has to be adhered-to by those wishing to make planning applications. To delay it would continue to leave the Parish very vulnerable. To take the plan to referendum is neither complicated nor onerous particularly as the Eastington plan is by far and away the most advanced within the District and is likely to be on its own at this stage. We are commencing discussions with SDC to agree a more realistic timetable that is the best interests of our community.
