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Welcome to the latest edition of the E-Planning Newsletter from Winchester City Council.
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1APP – Winchester will ‘go-live’ on 25th February 2008
Winchester City Council has announced that it will ‘go-live’ with 1APP, the national standard planning application form, on 25th February 2008. From this date all applications will be validated against the national requirements, as set out by government in their document The Validation of Planning Applications - Guidance for local planning authorities, and additional local requirements, as consulted on by Winchester City Council.
The final local list of requirements, and associated checklists, that we will be adopting are currently being prepared for publication. The new forms, and associated checklists, will be available to download from 25th February 2008. Alternatively, applications can be made via the Planning Portal.
PLEASE NOTE: We will still accept existing application forms up to 4pm on Friday 4th April 2008. However, all applications made after 25 February 2008 will be validated against the national 1APP requirements, and Winchester City Council’s Local List of requirements.
Winchester City Council Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP)
In 1992, at the United Nations Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the UK was one of 150 countries who signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, agreeing that they must take action to prevent the unprecedented world-wide loss of habitats and species.
Strategies and policies are instrumental in driving forward legislation, but everyone has a vital role to play to help meet these objectives.
This can be through the way we garden, providing food and shelter for wildlife, volunteering for a wildlife organisation, assisting with wildlife surveys, managing natural areas, farming in an environmentally sensitive way or making decisions and policies that affect biodiversity.
A Local Biodiversity Action Plan for Winchester is a way of implementing such action and achieving national biodiversity objectives using local knowledge and experience.
The Winchester BAP will be published shortly on our website, and further details will be sent in subsequent newsletters.
Local Development Framework – Core Strategy
As part of the ongoing work which will lead to the development of spatial options for the District, we are inviting you to let us know of any development opportunities which could contribute to this. This is a separate exercise to the Issues and Options consultation on the Council's Core Strategy but forms part of the early consultation on our Development Provision and Allocations document.
Please email us at ldf@winchester.gov.uk separately to tell us about these sites, and their relative merits, and why you think they could contribute to a sustainable spatial strategy.
The deadline for the Issues and Options consultation is February 15 2008. Go to www.winchester.gov.uk/liveforthefuture for more details.
Agents' Forum
The next Agents' Forum will be held on Wednesday 9th April 2008 at 2pm at Winchester City Council, so please put the date in your diaries.
The agenda and programme will be circulated nearer to this date, but if you have any comments and suggestions for topics to be discussed, please contact Philippa Eldridge, E-Planning Development Leader on peldridge@winchester.gov.uk or Tel: 01962 848 124.
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| For more information contact: Philippa Eldridge E-Planning Development Leader Winchester City Council Planning Department City Offices Colebrook Street Winchester Hampshire SO23 9LJ Tel: 01962 848 124 Fax: 01962 841 365 Email:peldridge@winchester.gov.uk |
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