coco the fullback wrote:
What's the status of the LDF announcement? Anybody know?
I have checked, because I was not up to date with being on Holiday till recently.
This what the Inspector (Shelagh Bussey) said in her note of 11th May -
INSPECTOR’S NOTE 9
Comments on the Council’s Proposed Main Modifications
In the light of all of the comments received on the Council’s proposed Main Modifications, which I have read, I have requested the Council to make the following amendments. I am not inviting any further representations on this matter.
Furthermore, the comments received did not raise any entirely new matters that have not been previously discussed at hearing sessions. Therefore, it will not be necessary to discuss them at a further hearing session that has been provisionally scheduled for 24 May 2012.The 'following amendments' noted did not include any changes to Newmarket!
She then issued a further note on the 17th May -
INSPECTOR’S NOTE 10
Comments on the National Planning Policy Framework, the Government’s Model Policy for the Presumption in Favour of Sustainable Development and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites
I have read of all of the comments received on the recent changes to national planning policy referred to above. However, they do not raise any entirely new matters that have not been previously discussed at hearing sessions. Therefore, it will not be necessary to discuss them at a further hearing session. The hearing session that was provisionally scheduled for 24 May 2012 is therefore cancelled.
I am not inviting any further written comments in connection with these or any other matters relating to the examination of the Sites Plan. However, I thank everyone who has made written and/or oral contributions throughout the examination process. These have added significantly to the suggestions for main and additional modifications to the Sites Plan.
I am glad you asked the question which prompted me to go look for an update!
I think when it comes to the LDF then it is looking like this is game over and Newmarket looks set to come out of Greenbelt in her final report. I really can she the inspector suddenly, out of left-field, suggesting that Wakefield select another site in place of Newmarket. Technically, as I understand it, she could do this but if you look at the evidence it would appear that is highly unlikely, especially as some housing sites were taken out at this modification stage and if she/WMDC were uncomfortable with this site, it would have been changed already IMO! It was clear to me, as a participant at the hearings, that she was not convinced that any alternative sites were better than Newmarket, which of course we always contended was clearly the case!
So, the fat lady appears to be warming up her vocal cords if not quite singing... just yet!
