6:00am Wednesday 30th January 2013
By Jessica Cree, Ribble Valley reporter
Protesters object to the strategy in Whalley
To read the full article in the Lancashire Telegraph please click here
RIBBLE Valley Council is starting another six months of work on its housing development strategy after a planning inspector found “fundamental concerns” in the proposals.
In a letter to the authority, inspector Simon Berkeley from the Planning Inspectorate in Bristol said that much of the information detailed in the core strategy, which details how many houses the Ribble Valley needs to build to meet demand between 2009 and 2029, was “out-of-date”...In the report, Mr Berkeley said he had “strong doubts” about whether the plan would make it through the scrutiny stage because the evidence provided had come from 2008.
He advised for the core strategy either to be suspended or withdrawn to allow updates to be made.
Michael Ranson, leader of Ribble Valley Council, said that the council was now co-operating with the inspector’s suggestion to suspend the core strategy and hoped to resubmit it by June.
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