Draft Regulation 18 Sandwell Local Plan

Consultation Information

We are consulting on the draft Sandwell Local Plan (SLP). The consultation will run between 6^th November and 18^th December 2023.

All consultation documents are available to view on the Sandwell website at:

https://www.sandwell.gov.uk/planning/sandwell-local-plan

Copies of the Draft Plan and consultation documents are available in the reception areas of key Council buildings and public libraries. Details can be found on the Sandwell Local Plan website or by emailing or telephoning the numbers below.

Throughout the consultation, planning officers will be available on an appointment basis to clarify aspects of the draft plan and provide additional information as appropriate.

To make an appointment to speak to a planning officer, please use the information below:

Phone - 0121 569 4054

Email - Sandwell_LocalPlan@sandwell.gov.uk

How to respond

To give us your views, where possible please use the interactive online consultation document available on the webpage as this is the easiest way to view the Plan and make your comments to us. If this is not suitable, you can download a copy of the comments form as a Word document / PDF, to be completed and emailed or printed off and posted back to us.

Please send your comments to us in writing by 18^th December 2023 at 17.00hrs.

Any comments received after this cannot be accepted as they will not have been duly made.

We are unable to accept anonymous representations:

• We will not publish your personal contact details, such as your home address, telephone number or email address, but your name and comments will be available for others to see as part of the public consultation process.
• We may share responses including your personal details with the Planning Inspectorate as part of the statutory process of examination. Again, contact information will not be made public.

Please note that we will not formally acknowledge responses and will only contact you if we need further clarification. Your details will be held on our database in accord with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 and you will be contacted again at subsequent stages of the local plan process unless you explicitly tell us that you do not wish to be involved any further.

You can also ask to be notified specifically about the subsequent adoption of the Local Plan.

Additional Support

Please let us know if you have any accessibility issues and wherever possible we will make additional documents available to accommodate them.