SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE COUNCIL

Examination of the Policies, Sites & Places Plan

Inspector: Louise Phillips MA (Cantab) MSc MRTPI

Programme Officer: Verity Britton

Post: South Gloucestershire Council, Department for Environment and Community Services,

PO Box 299, Civic Centre, High Street, Kingswood, Bristol BS15 0DR

Email: Tel: 01454 863684

Website: www.southglos.gov.uk/PSPexamination

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Date: 09 December 2016

INSPECTOR’S GUIDANCE NOTE, ISSUES & QUESTIONS AND PROVISIONAL HEARINGS PROGRAMME

Dear

I am writing to you as the Programme Officer for the examination of the South Gloucestershire Council Policies, Sites and Places Plan (PSPP). I am an impartial officer of the examination and will be the first point of contact for most matters as it progresses.

The Secretary of State has appointed Mrs Louise Phillips MA MSc MRTPI of the Planning Inspectorate to conduct the examination and to report her findings to the Council in due course. To ensure her impartiality, the Inspector will not communicate directly with any party, including the Council, except during the forthcoming hearing sessions. Therefore, any communications for her should be sent to me.

My contact details are provided above. Please consult the website regularly as all new documents; deadlines and updated programming information will be published there.

Today, the Inspector has issued the following documents which have been sent to respondents and are now available on the website:

·  Guidance Note: to explain the procedures which will be followed during the examination;

·  Issues & Questions: setting out the main issues upon which the Inspector considers the ‘soundness’ of the PSPP to turn. Note that statements are invited from certain respondents.

·  Provisional Hearings Programme: a draft programme for the hearing sessions to be held in February 2017.

Please note the following key points in the above documents:

·  Pre-hearing statements (Council and certain participants only) are due to be received by 7pm on Friday 13 January 2017.

·  Hearing Sessions are due to take place on 7, 8, 22 & 23 February 2017.

Please contact me using the above details if you have any questions during the course of the examination.

Kind Regards,

Verity Britton

PROGRAMME OFFICER