Stage 3: D) Draft Plan Strategy – Public Inspection of Counter Representations Actions: Governance Paragraph 2.30 (page 12) (a) The SCI states: We will report counter representations to the Elected Members before forwarding to the Department for Infrastructure. Counter representations were reported to elected members at a Local Development Plan Working Group workshop on the 12 November 2020.
(b) The SCI states: We will fully consider counter representations before submitting the draft Plan Strategy to the Department of Infrastructure for Independent Examination. The Council has fully considered all representations and counter representations received in accordance with Regulations 16 and 18 to the draft Plan Strategy. The Council has prepared a ‘draft Plan Strategy Public Consultation Report’, which provides an overview of the main issues of the public consultation exercise on the Council’s draft Plan Strategy, see DPS-142. The report provides a summary of the main issues raised in the responses and the Council’s consideration of these. Following consideration of the draft Plan Strategy representations Council has also prepared a ‘Schedule of Proposed Modifications to the draft Plan Strategy’ which was subject to eight weeks of public consultation from 8 January 2021 to 5 March 2021, see DPS-143.
Actions: Community Involvement Paragraph 2.31 (page 12) (a) The SCI states: We will make copies of all counter-representations available for inspection on the Council website and in the Council Planning Office. All counter representations were made available for inspection on the Council website and at the principal Planning Office, Silverwood Business Park, Ballymena, BT42 4HZ from 10 December 2020. See Appendix 12.
(b) The SCI states: We will write to key consultees, Elected Members and all those included in the Community Involvement Register informing them that counter representations are available for inspection and of the arrangements put place for this purpose. Key consultees, elected members and those on the Community Involvement Register were contacted on 10 December 2020 to advise that the counter representations were available for inspection and the arrangements put in place for this purpose.
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