Planning Issues in North Northamptonshire

The North Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit has produced a discussion document about Issues that need to be tackled in reviewing the long term Plan for the area.

The plan for the next 20 years will focus on local needs and ambitions and the Issues Paper is designed to get people thinking about development and environmental issues and how places could change for the better.

As part of the consultation, a ‘postcards from the future’ competition has been launched inviting people of all ages to think about how their area and the way they are living could have changed by 2031. Prizes will be given for the most imaginative designs and ideas.

Feedback will help the Joint Planning Unit put together a draft of the Plan, setting out the preferred approach, for further consultation in the summer.  The replacement Plan should then be prepared by the end of the year, after which it has to go through a public examination with an independent Inspector before it can be adopted, probably in late 2012. The period for comments runs until Monday 28th March