Daventry District Council, Northampton Borough Council, South Northamptonshire Council and Northamptonshire County Council have established the West Northamptonshire Joint Planning Unit (JPU) to prepare the Joint Development Plan Documents, including the Joint Core Strategy and Joint Supplementary Planning Documents. Each borough and district council continues to be responsible for preparing its own local development documents and addressing local matters, although co-ordination of the overall programme by the JPU will be necessary.
The JPU is responsible to the West Northamptonshire Joint LDF Steering Group which comprises two Councillors from each Council with the active involvement of Northamptonshire County Council and the West Northamptonshire Development Corporation. The Steering Group's role is to oversee the preparation of the Joint Documents and associated studies and to discuss common planning issues across West Northamptonshire.
The Joint Planning Unit is currently considering the 700 or so responses it received on the Issues and Options consultation paper and a report will be presented to the Joint Steering Group in March 2008 summarising the responses.
The future timetable will be influenced by the Planning Bill which is expected to be passed in April 2008.
Click to view the Joint Core Strategy (pdf).
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