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Core Strategy

Please note: Following a request from United Utilities, the diagram showing the location of water infrastructure on page 161 of the Draft Core Strategy has been removed from the document. 

The Core Strategy is the central Development Plan Document (DPD) in the Local Development Framework. The Core Strategy is a strategic level document which will provide the spatial planning vision and strategy that will shape the future of Salford.

The Core Strategy will:

• set out the long-term spatial vision for the city (up to 2027), and the overall strategy for delivering that vision
• identify the overall level of different types of development (including housing, employment, and retail) that is envisaged in the city during that period, and the general geographic distribution of that development
• identify the main improvements in infrastructure that are required to support that scale and distribution of development
• define the city's hierarchy of town and neighbourhood centres
• set out the strategic spatial policies for the city
• include a Key Diagram; illustrating its main provisions, and a number of strategic site allocations
• identify the links with, and support the delivery of, other key strategies and plans, including the Sustainable Community Strategy

What stage is the Core Strategy at?

Consultation on the Draft Core Strategy took place between 9 November 2009 and 15 January 2010. If you have any additional information you would  like us to consider before the Core Strategy is finalised, please advise us as soon as possible using the details below. Details of the comments received in response to the consultation are available to download at the foot of this page.

The Draft Core Strategy sets out the city council's proposed approach to how the city should develop, having regard to all of the comments made through the previous consultations and the evidence available. The Draft Core Strategy, Sustainability Appraisal and Schedule of Responses to the previous stages of the consultation (this document also provides further details on the derivation of some of the figures in the housing and employment chapters of the Draft Core Strategy) are still available to download at the foot of this page and are available to view:

• At Salford Libraries
• At Salford Civic Centre, Chorley Road, Swinton, Salford.(Opening times: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm)

Printed copies of the documents are available to purchase at the following cost (including postage and packing):

• Draft Core Strategy - £30
• Schedule of Responses to the Core Strategy Issues and Options Consultation - £10

To order a copy of any of these documents, please email us or send a cheque or postal order, crossed and marked 'Account Payee' and made payable to Salford City Council (contact details below.)

Planning Inspectorate advisory visit

Having reached a key stage in production of its Core Strategy, the city council was offered an advisory visit from the Planning Inspectorate. The Planning Inspectorate provides support to local authorities in preparing their Local Development Frameworks and in particular Core Strategies. The purpose of the visit was to review progress on plan preparation and to provide an opportunity to explore that adequacy of work already undertaken with regards to the public examination and its role in testing the soundness of the plan.

Planning Inspector Ron Punshon was nominated to assist Salford City Council and visited on 24 February 2010 to consider the Draft Core Strategy document and discuss key issues with officers. The Advice Note is a copy of the full note produced by the Inspector and is available to download at the foot of this page. It is important to note that the guidance in the Planning Inspector's note is advisory and will not constitute a formal part the examination process.

Previous Core Strategy Consultations

The previous Core Strategy consultation documents and details of the representations received on the Core Strategy Issues and Options Report and Alternative Options Report are still available to download on the website.

Implications of recent government announcements on the production of the Core Strategy

The coalition government has made a commitment to abolish Regional Strategies and return decision making powers on the amount of housing development within local authority areas to local councils. This has significant implications for the Core Strategy, which will need to be carefully considered before the document can be progressed to the next stage. The government has not issued detailed guidance on these changes as yet, and a formal announcement is expected soon. The Publication Core Strategy will therefore no longer be published in August 2010 as indicated in the Local Development Scheme, and details of the revised timescales for progressing the Core Strategy will be published on this webpage shortly, once the implications of this announcement are fully understood.

Who to contact

Name

Spatial Planning

Address

Sustainable Regeneration Directorate
Civic Centre
Chorley Road
Swinton
M27 5BY

Telephone

0161 793 3782

Email

plans.consultation@salford.gov.uk

Fax

0161 793 3667

This page was last updated on 30 June 2010

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