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In February 2021, the council adopted a development strategy setting out its ambitions for the use of land it owns 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.
People are asked to have their say on:
- which sites they would like to see included in the development programme, and
- what type of development should take place at those sites. For example, this could include whether they would support a 100% affordable housing scheme or whether they would want to see premises for local jobs.
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.
Councillor Mark Canniford, North Somerset Council's executive member with responsibility for placemaking and economy, said: “We’re committed to building our development programme in partnership with our communities, so this consultation is an important part of the process.
“By developing on our own land, we can deliver things that the private sector won’t. At the same time, we can generate income to fund other priorities that residents want to see us deliver. This will also demonstrate that we’re doing everything we can to meet the government’s national housing targets, reducing the risk of unplanned and less sustainable development taking place in other locations.
“I encourage people to get involved and tell us what they would like to see happen to these sites. Their views will really make a difference and help shape our proposals.”
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.
Find out more and take part in the consultation by 9am on Monday 20 June online at www.n-somerset.gov.uk/nscsites.