Core Strategy Preferred Options
The Core Strategy Preferred Options document was produced in 2009. Copies of the main Core Strategy Preferred Options document are available to download from below. The official consultation took place between June and August 2009, but was extended until October 2009 to take account of the summer holiday period.
- View the Core Strategy Preferred Options Document (PDF, 209 pages, 8.0 MB)
The Council have published a consultation statement and summary which set out all the comments received:
- Core Strategy Preferred Options Consultation Summary (June 2011) (PDF, 89 pages, 4.7 MB)
- Core Strategy Preferred Options Consultation Statement and Schedule of Responses (February 2011) (PDF, 375 pages, 10 MB)
There were a number of ways that people could get involved in the consultation:
- Questionnaire leaflet posted to every home in York
- Online survey
- Full set of documents available in libraries, 9 St Leonard's Place and Guildhall receptions
- Focus groups, meetings and exhibitions at key locations throughout York
Also available to download to support the Core Strategy Preferred Options are:
- Topic Paper 1 - Approach to the Spatial Strategy (PDF, 84 pages, 5.32 MB)
- Topic Paper 2 - Affordable Housing (PDF, 36 pages, 1.11 MB)
- Topic Paper 3 - Transport (PDF, 17 pages, 3.42 MB)
- Sustainability Appraisal (PDF, 120 pages, 1.6 MB)
- Sustainability Appraisal Technical Appendices (PDF, 161 pages, 2.5 MB)
- Sustainability Appraisal Non-Technical Summary (PDF, 42 pages, 0.7 MB)
- Habitats Regulation Assessment (PDF, 42 pages, 0.7 MB)
- Consultation Statement (PDF, 70 pages, 2.4 MB)
- Consultation response form (PDF, 2 pages, 0.0MB)
The Core Strategy is the principal document in the Local Development Framework (LDF). It will set out the overall strategy of the LDF and the key strategic policies against which all development will be assessed. All other Development Plan Documents (DPDs) prepared by the council will have to conform with the Core Strategy and contain policies and proposals which support it's strategic vision, objectives and spatial strategy.
The preferred options document drew on the responses made to the Issues and Options stages as well as updated Government advice and local evidence base documents. It sets out a clear Vision and Spatial Strategy as well as broad strategic objectives, targets and policies about York's key issues.
