This afternoon I've been at Shire Hall in Gloucester with a couple of hundred others - John Marjoram and myself appeared to be the only two from Stroud District Council. We came to hear about the Draft Regional Spatial Strategy, or RSS - a new kind of plan for the SW region up to the year 2026.This sort of thing is close to perfect for curing insomnia - yet buried in pages and pages of text is a regional framework about ‘where things go’, what the scale of development should be, and the links between broad issues like healthcare, education and crime, as well as basic infrastructure such as transport. All vital stuff that will be hugely influential on planning locally and regionally...indeed this is probably one of the most important documents being produced.
The Draft RSS is out for consultation until 30th August and in my view while there is much to be welcomed there are also some deep flaws. I will be delving more deeply into the Strategy in coming weeks to make a submission to the consultation. I will post more on this Blog in future but would certainly welcome any comments and feedback from those brave enough to read this document.
See more about Strategy:
http://www.southwest-ra.gov.uk/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=538&tt=swra
See more about consultation:
http://www.southwesteip.co.uk/home/
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The Citizen report of the meeting is at:
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=138514&command=displayContent&sourceNode=138497&contentPK=14891326&moduleName=InternalSearch&formname=sidebarsearch#views
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