Agenda item

To receive the following Chairman’s announcements:

• Consultation on Waste Sites
• Street Trading (revised) Consultation
• Core Strategy Consultation Event

·        Marlborough Energy Day

Core Strategy Consultation Event

Wiltshire Council is consulting on the Core Strategy for Wiltshire.  The consultation would take place between 13th June and 8th August.

This would set out how Wiltshire will change over the next 15 years or so and would importantly give a certain framework within which investors can make decisions and communities can consider their neighbourhood plans (subject to what emerges through the Localism Bill).

As an ongoing part of that dialogue we are committed to further consultation within each Community Area.

An event has been organised in Marlborough Town Hall on Wednesday 29 June. It will run from 2.30 – 8.00pm and will take the form of an exhibition with officers on hand to answer any questions and take note of comments made.

Marlborough Energy Awareness Event

Wiltshire Council’s Energy Awareness Event would be held at Marlborough library on Wednesday 29th June 10.30am - 2.30pm.

Attendees would have access to a wealth of knowledge and information and the opportunity to chat with specially trained Home Energy Efficiency Officers to find out how you can reduce costs by running their home more energy efficiently. 

Invitation to comment on the final draft proposed new council-wide Street trading scheme

At a meeting on the 5 April 2011 Wiltshire Council’s Licensing Committee considered the issues raised by public consultation on the proposed council-wide street trading scheme.

The street trading scheme would now be revised in the light of these decisions. Council officers would undertake a second, two week, public consultation commencing mid June 2011 with all interested parties including area boards.

The consultation document is available on the Council’s website: http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/council/consultations.htm

The Licensing Committee would consider the revised street trading scheme and the results of the second public consultation at a meeting in September 2011, with a view to the council adopting the council-wide street trading scheme by the end of 2011.

Consultation on Wiltshire and Swindon Proposed Submission Draft Waste Site Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD)

Wiltshire Council is updating its policy framework to ensure that future proposals for waste development in Wiltshire are for the right types of facilities in the right locations. Consultation will commence in June 2011 for 8 weeks on a draft Waste Site Allocations Development Plan Document (DPD) (starting 13 June 2011 and closing at 5pm 5 August 2011).

The consultation document allocates a range of sites for a variety of potential waste uses to provide a flexible and responsive framework that will enable waste to be driven up the waste hierarchy - i.e. reducing our dependence on landfill, with a greater focus on recycling and composting of waste. The majority of sites identified are on land currently in use by existing waste management facilities or current/proposed industrial areas (list of sites and map attached).

Once the consultation period had closed, the draft Sites DPD, the supporting evidence base and all comments received during the consultation will be submitted to the Secretary of State (following Full Council approval) for independent examination.

This DPD forms the final key document in the policy framework for the provision of waste sites within Wiltshire and Swindon, which includes:

·         Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Core Strategy (adopted July 2009)

·         Wiltshire and Swindon Waste Development Control Policies   Development Plan Document (adopted September 2009)

The draft Sites DPD would be available from the start of the consultation period (13 June 2011). The Council encourages anyone wishing to view and comment on the consultation document to use the council’s consultation website:

http://consult.wiltshire.gov.uk/portal

Hard copies of the documents would also be available for inspection at Wiltshire Council and Swindon Borough Council main offices as well as all libraries throughout the County and Borough.  For further information please contact the Minerals and Waste Policy Team at Wiltshire Council by telephone (01225 713429) or email:

 mineralsandwastepolicy@wiltshire.gov.uk.

St Peter’s Junior School

The Chairman advised the meeting that St Peter’s junior school had written to thank the Area Board for its help in ensuring that post of the lollipop lady would be made permanent.