Better places, homes and jobs: consultation on a development programme for land owned by North Somerset Council

This consultation is now closed. The original text is retained below for the record. Consultation results are available here.

about possible housing and employment development on land owned by North Somerset Council. The deadline for responses is 9am on Monday 20 June.

Background

In February 2021, we adopted a development strategy (www.n-somerset.gov.uk/developmentstrategy) setting out our ambitions for the use of land we own to:

  • provide homes and jobs that meet the needs of its communities – current and future – while helping with government targets for housing supply,
  • offer better quality and more sustainable developments,
  • deliver sites that the market won’t deliver, including difficult brownfield land and employment sites, and
  • generate funding to help deliver other priorities, such as investing in schools, transport links and leisure facilities.

Have your say

You are asked to have your say on:

  • which sites you would like to see included in the development programme, and
  • what type of housing or employment development should take place at those sites.

The consultation includes questions about sites in Weston-super-Mare, Portishead, Clevedon, Nailsea, Banwell, Backwell, Locking and Hutton.

The development consultation is separate to the existing Local Plan consultation. The two are different as this consultation seeks to find out what people would like to see happen with land owned by North Somerset Council.

Please read the document Better Homes, Places and Jobs which sets out the options as we see them and then give us your thoughts using this questionnaire (Closed).

Here is a pdf lookalike version of the questionnaire if you want to browse it before completing it online. We are not accepting hard copy questionnaire responses (unless you have a need for it in a different format).

Next steps

The responses received from the consultation will help shape a final programme of development to be considered by Full Council in autumn 2022. Detailed consultations will then follow on the preferred development sites.

Further information

If you have any questions about this consultation, or if you need the materials in a different format, email us at development.sites@n-somerset.gov.uk.

Timeline

  • Opened
    25 Apr 2022 at 09:00
  • Closed
    21 Jun 2022 at 09:00
  • Response Published
    30 Sep 2022

Consultation Documents

Details

Organisational Information
Job role or team to contact for questions Jenny Ford
Job title Head of Placemaking & Development
Contact Email development.sites@n-somerset.gov.uk
Contact Telephone N/A

Project Information
Aim of this consultation To seek views on:
- The selection of sites to be taken forward from development, or which should be dropped from the programme.
- The types of development that people would like to see if sites are taken forward, e.g. affordable housing, private housing, employment.
- The other priorities for development of the sites, e.g. sustainability, quality of design, space standards.
Close Date 21 Jun 2022 09:00
Consultation Topic
  • Business - jobs, new business or factories
  • Environment: including rubbish and recycling, climate-related issues, parks and open spaces, footpaths
  • Housing: including home-building*, renting, homelessness
Context for this consultation In February 2021 the Council adopted a Development Strategy, which agreed the principle of creating a programme of development for council-owned land. This consultation seeks to confirm which sites should be included in that programme, and, if developed, what types of development respondents would like prioritised.