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Write to us:
EMEL c/o
Old Ragged School
Brook Street
Nottingham NG1 1EA
Or via our Secretary
Caroline Adams
(01778 590671)
Email: secretary@
emel.org.uk
For abbreviations
on this website
see Glossary page.
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REGIONAL PLAN
EMEL and our member groups have played a full role in discussions to develop the Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS8). A review of RSS, now to be known as the Regional Plan, is under way, led by the Regional Assembly. When completed it will replace existing County Structure Plans.
The draft Regional Plan was launched in September 2006. EMEL issued a press release 'Huge housing expansion a threat to environment'.
EMEL's response to the 2006 consultation can be downloaded here as a Word document.
A formal examination in public was held in Leicester and Lincoln in 2007. Details, including participants' statements, can be seen on the Planning Inspectorate website.
The Panel Report can be downloaded from the Government Office website.
The Secretary of State's Proposed Changes to the draft plan was published in July 2008 with consultation to 17 October 2008. Details are on the Government Office website.
EMEL's response to the Proposed Changes can be downloaded here as a Word document.
A further partial review focusing on housing, transport, renewable energy, coastal flood risk and aggregates began on 17 October 2008 with preliminary consultation to 12 December 2008. Documents are available on the Regional Assembly website. This will be followed by a consultation on Options from 2 April 2009, and formal consultation on a new draft Regional Plan from 26 March 2010.
Regional Plan documents relating to both the 2006 review and the 2008 partial review can be accessed from the Regional Assembly website - including a link to current RSS8 published by the Secretary of State in March 2005.
EMEL's response to a preliminary Option Paper (January 2006) can be downloaded here as a Word document.
EMEL has representatives on officer groups which feed into the Regional Plan:
- Three Cities Sub Regional Strategy - Janice Bradley (Notts WT)
- Northern Area Sub Regional Strategy - Janice Bradley (Notts WT)
- Energy Working Group - Callie Lister (FoE)
- RTAB (Waste Planning) - Nigel Lee (FoE)
The Environment Advisory Group also feeds into the Regional Plan in a number of ways, particularly through the Spatial Planning Regional Officers Group (SPROG) which includes Janice. The Biodiversity Action Plan and work on green infrastructure also inform the Plan (see Environment page).
In addition, one of EMEL's member groups EMTAR is represented by Bettina Lange on the Regional Transport Group.
EMEL has supported development of a statement on Environmental Capacity to inform the Regional Plan review (available shortly).
EMEL also supported a joint statement on the need for Green Infrastructure as part of the Milton Keynes and South Midlands Sub Regional Strategy, which led to a Green Infrastructure Guide being produced by the MKSM Environment & Quality of Life Sub Group.
Updated October 2008
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EMEL
Member organisations
BTCV
Campaign to Protect Rural England
Council for British Archaeology
Friends of the Earth
The National Trust
Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Transport Activists Roundtable (EMTAR)
The Wildlife Trusts
The Woodland Trust
Associate Organisations
English Heritage
Environment Agency
Forestry Commission
Natural England
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