One question that has been raised on several occasions is quite how we got to this point, especially when residents discover that the current consultation is only on the implementation of an already adopted Core Strategy. Unfortunately the Wokingham Borough site is not best for navigating as much of the extensive documentation is under technical names that you need to know in order to find them. However, many of the key documents can be found on the Borough Core Strategy page.
The stages the Core Strategy process has been through are as follows:
The following timetable outlines our progress on the Core Strategy:
- Executive agree Initial Options – 26 May 2005
- Consult on the Initial Options from 15 June to 27 July 2005
- Executive consider responses to Initial Options and agree Alternatives for the Draft Core Strategy – 27 October 2005
- Consult on the Alternatives for the Draft Core Strategy from 9 November to 21 December 2005
- Executive consider responses to the Alternatives for the Draft Core Strategy and agree submission document – 27 July 2006. The Executive deferred agreeing the submission Core Strategy.
- Executive consider revised responses to the Alternatives for the Draft Core Strategy and agree submission document – 26 June 2008
- Submit Core Strategy to the Secretary of State – 20 August 2008
- Consult on Submitted Core Strategy from 20 August to 1 October 2008
- Consult on Site Allocation Representations arising from Submission Core Strategy from 5 November to 17 December 2008
- Pre-Examination Meeting – 20 January 2009
- Examination Hearings- 17 March – 30 April 2009
- Binding Inspector’s Report – received 27 October, published 6 November 2009
- Adoption – 29 January 2010
As you will no doubt see, there have been a number of consultations at various stages of the process, although we have had comments that many residents were totally unaware that these were going on. In response to our comments Gary Cowan, our local councillor and also executive member for Local and Regional Planning has included the following comment in a number of his response letters both to us and to others:
With respect to communications there is a communications plan which covered extensive consultation by letter, press advert and radio. I insisted on this as I felt it was crucial residents were kept fully informed. I have just asked that this is updated to take in all relevant communications and once that is done I can forward it to you. I have also asked that it is put on the WBC website.
We look forward to seeing the communications plan published.
For much more detail about the Arborfield Garrison SDL, albeit from a Barkham perspective, we can certainly recommend taking a look at the extensive Barkham Development Watch pages which includes links to all the major documents in the process including the South-East Regional Plan with direct references to all the pertinent paragraphs in the document for us at Arborfield.
Consultation Timeline
One question that has been raised on several occasions is quite how we got to this point, especially when residents discover that the current consultation is only on the implementation of an already adopted Core Strategy. Unfortunately the Wokingham Borough site is not best for navigating as much of the extensive documentation is under technical names that you need to know in order to find them. However, many of the key documents can be found on the Borough Core Strategy page.
The stages the Core Strategy process has been through are as follows:
The following timetable outlines our progress on the Core Strategy:
As you will no doubt see, there have been a number of consultations at various stages of the process, although we have had comments that many residents were totally unaware that these were going on. In response to our comments Gary Cowan, our local councillor and also executive member for Local and Regional Planning has included the following comment in a number of his response letters both to us and to others:
We look forward to seeing the communications plan published.
For much more detail about the Arborfield Garrison SDL, albeit from a Barkham perspective, we can certainly recommend taking a look at the extensive Barkham Development Watch pages which includes links to all the major documents in the process including the South-East Regional Plan with direct references to all the pertinent paragraphs in the document for us at Arborfield.
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