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Core Strategy (incorporating Development Control policies)

The Core Strategy looks at key issues such as what housing and other land uses should be planned for, the role of settlements, how we can protect the environment and reduce the impacts of climate change.

Core Strategy (incorporating Development Control policies)

The Core Strategy outlines the vision and overall objectives for development in North Norfolk up to 2021. All other Development Plan Documents should conform with the Core Strategy.

This document also contains the district-wide Development Control policies for North Norfolk that will inform future planning decisions. Key parts of the Core Strategy include a Spatial Strategy which states where new housing and other development should be focussed, plus a range of policies showing the Councils preferred approach to tourism, flood risk, coastal erosion, climate change, redundant defence establishments and protecting the natural and built environment. Please see below for the current Core Strategy document, which, following consultation, has been amended to include some minor changes:

Work has been progressing on the Core Strategy for approximately 3 years and has involved various stages of document production and consultation. Early stages involved establishing the issues to be addressed and various options for doing so, in consultation with the community.

These issues and options were used to help develop draft policy approaches, and in September 2006 the Core Strategy 'Preferred Options' report was published for consultation. Over 1,000 responses were received to this consultation and consideration of these informed the development of the Core Strategy policies that were submitted to Government for Examination in June 2007. A further six-week period of public consultation ran from 18th June to 30th July 2007 and the 750 comments made at this stage have been forwarded to the Inspector for consideration during the examination.
During the consultation a number of individuals and organisations put forward their ideas for additional land allocations and suggested boundary amendments. These representations themselves were subject to a six-week period of public consultation which took place from midday Monday 20th August to midday Monday 1st October. For further details see the Site Allocation and Boundary Changes consultation page.

Following the public consultation in Summer 2007, the District Council proposed that a number of minor changes should be made to the Core Strategy Submission document. The changes have been proposed through a series of documents in order to provide extra clarity and to make factual corrections where necessary and does not alter the overall thrust or meaning of policies.
The Core Strategy (including minor modifications) can be downloaded above. Please see below to view or download copies of the various Schedules of Minor Modifications:

Those persons seeking major changes to policies or other areas of the Core Strategy had their case debated at the Examination Hearings which took place from 4th December 2007 to 18th January 2008. The Inspector will consider all written representations and issues dicussed at the Examination Hearings before submitting his Binding Report in Mid-June. It is anticipated that the Core Strategy will be adopted in July 2008.

Please see the links below for further details of the various consultative stages undertaken during the production of the Core Strategy. The comments made at each consultation stage can be viewed using our online consultation system.

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