The City of Durham Trust
The County Durham Plan
Trust Responses to the 2013 Pre-Submission Draft
The information on this page and in the documents linked to relate to the earlier version of the County Durham Plan, which was withdrawn by the County Council in September 2015. We are leaving it online for archival purposes, and in the hope that lessons will be learned.
Consultation on the 2013 Pre-Submission Draft of the County Durham Plan closed on December 9th 2013. The Trust submitted 122 pages of comments on the Duty to Cooperate, on 21 policies, and three associated papers. These showed that the Plan was fundamentally flawed in multiple ways.
Following the Council’s submission of the Plan to the Secretary of State on 25 April 2014 an Inspector, Harold Stephens BA MPhil DipTP MRTPI FRSA was appointed by the Secretary of State to conduct the Examination in Public of the plan to determine whether the document is sound. The EiP began on Wednesday, 1st October at the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground, Riverside, Chester-le-Street.
The Trust was represented at a considerable number of the hearings, and we have prepared 15 further statements in support of our case, listed below as Supplementary Statements.
- Statement of Community Involvement
- Supplementary Statement
- Paragraph 1.19 - Duty to Cooperate
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 1 - Sustainable Development
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 2 - Spatial Approach
- Settlement Study
- LA7 Leadership Board: Review of Economic Evidence
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 3 - Quantity of Development
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 4 - Distribution of Development
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 5 - Developer Contributions
- Policy 6 - Durham City
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 7 - Aykley Heads
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 8 - Durham City Strategic Sites
- Site Selection Process
- Excel Spreadsheets showing bus travel times and private car travel times
- Durham City Green Belt Site Assessment Phase 2 (original version)
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 9 - Western Relief Road
- Policy 10 - Northern Relief Road
- Supplementary Statement (covers both policies 9 and 10)
- Policy 12 - Executive Housing Allocation
- Comment submitted online
- Policy 13 - Other Executive Housing Proposals
- Policy 14 - Green Belt
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 25 - Retail Allocations and Town Centre Regeneration Areas
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 30 - Housing Land Allocations
- Durham City Green Belt Site Assessment Phase 2 (original version)
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 32 - HMOs and Student Accommodation
- Supplementary Statement
- Extract ftom Manchester City Council Core Strategy dealing with accommodation for students
- Policy 44 - Historic Environment
- Policy 45 - Durham Cathedral and Castle World Heritage Site
- Policy 48 - Delivering Sustainable Travel
- Policy 49 - Provision of Transport Infrastructure
- Supplementary Statement
- Policy 50 - Allocating and Safeguarding Transport Routes and Facilities
The following were also submitted as comments on documents released alongside the Pre-Submission Draft: