Privacy statement

The personal information you provide on this form will be processed in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Act 2018. The information you provide will only be used for the purposes of the preparation of the Local Plan as required by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, and may be used by the council to contact you if necessary regarding your submission. Your name, organisation and comments will be made available for public inspection when displaying and reporting the outcome of the statutory consultation stage and cannot be treated as confidential. You will not be asked for any unnecessary information and in order to protect personal data, we will not publish signatures, telephone numbers, addresses or email addresses on the internet.

Your details will be kept until the Local Plan is adopted plus a further ten years to evidence that a fair and transparent process has been followed. Processing is kept to a minimum and data will only be processed in accordance with the law. When other agencies are involved in Local Plan preparation, we may need to share details about you to enable us to work together for your benefit. Information will only be shared with third parties if they have genuine and lawful need for it. Information shared on this basis will not be reused for any other purpose. We will take all reasonable precautions to protect your personal data from accidental or deliberate loss or unauthorised disclosure.