Statement of Community Involvement

Statement of Community Involvement

Local Planning Authorities are required through national planning policy to prepare and adopt a Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) as part of the wider suite of documents making up their Local Plan.  The SCI sets out the Council's approach to community involvement, and provides details of how and when people can get involved in both the plan making and development management processes.

The original document was written following extensive consultation in 2006 and updated in 2011, 2013 and 2014 to reflect changes to procedures and national planning policy.  It has now been updated again and was adopted by Cabinet on 05 December 2016.  This latest update relates to the methods this Council uses when publicising planning applications.  These changes have arisen from a wider review of Council procedures with a view to making efficiencies and moving to a Digital By Design approach where possible.

• Adopted version of the Statement of Community Involvement (.pdf 307KB)

Changes to developmental management have had to be made during the COVID-19 outbreak.