Wiltshire Council Core Strategy, planning policy and traffic. 2010.
The new Wiltshire Council has to produce a new planning policy framework for the next 7 years. Meanwhile its planning decisions are based on remnants of the policies of the previous District Councils; not a satisfactory situation.
Consultations on a new draft Core Strategy took place at the end of 2009 and the Guardians submitted comments after holding a public meeting. The Council is currently considering the large number of comments that it had received. The number received from the Devizes area was second only to the number from the Trowbridge area.
The new Core Strategy, from which new planning policies will emerge, is due to be produced towards the end of 2010.
Planning decisions depend in part on traffic forecasts and it is now considered that the previous forecasts for Devizes are not satisfactory. The Council has agreed to have a new survey of Devizes traffic volumes using much better technology, such as number plate recognition cameras, to determine the numbers of vehicles which pass through the town. That survey will take place during 2010.
The public consultation stage is now over. It remains to be seen whether the new government will change the policies towards gypsy and traveller sites.
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