The Forum has worked through all the responses to the 2017 consultation, categorising them and identifying those which raise a planning issue or action that needs to be considered further. The 2017 draft plan has then been amended accordingly: the process supported by workshops, and further meetings / correspondence, with relevant staff from Durham County Council’s planning and spatial policy team.
The codes for categorising the responses are as follows:
- c1: outside the remit of the neighbourhood plan
- c1a: outside the Plan area
- c1b: planning issue that has to be dealt with by the Council or by other bodies not by a neighbourhood plan
- c1c: not a planning issue
- c2: a generic style comment of praise, blame, opinion etc not requiring a response just an acknowledgement
- c3: suggesting changes to the policies
- c4: suggesting changes to the projects
- c5: suggesting changes to the other text of the Plan
The amended sections of the 2017 draft plan have the changes tracked as follows:
- red = deleted text, with the comment number included which can be checked in the categorisation/responses for consideration files for the full details of the comment
- green = new text, with the comment number included which can be checked in the categorisation/responses for consideration files for the full details of the comment
- blue = new text recommended by Durham County Council’s planning and spatial policy team
- purple = a comment that has raised a query, with the comment number included which can be checked in the categorisation/responses for consideration files for the full details of the comment
Theme 1: A City with a Sustainable Future
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme1
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme1-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme1Draft2017TrackChanges
Theme 2a: A beautiful and historic city – Heritage
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme2a
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme2a-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme2aDraft2017Changes
Theme 2b: A beautiful and historic city – Green Infrastructure
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme2b
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme2b-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme2bDraft2017TrackChanges
Theme 3: A City With a Diverse and Resilient Economy
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme3
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme3-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme3Draft2017TrackChanges
Theme 4: A City with attractive and affordable places to live
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme-4
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme4-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme4Draft2017TrackChanges
Theme 5: A City With a Modern and Sustainable Transport Infrastructure
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorising-Comments-Theme5
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme5-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme5Draft2017TrackChanges
Theme 6: A City With an Enriched Community Life
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Comments-Theme6
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Theme6-Responses-For-Consideration
- Amended Theme text, with changes tracked Theme6Draft201TrackChanges
Further Comments
- List of all categorisations: 2017-Categorisation-Further-Comments
- List of planning issues or actions that need further consideration: 2017-Further-Comments-Responses-For-Consideration
Other sections
- Amended Chapter 1 text, with changes tracked Chapter1Draft2017TrackChanges
- Amended Chapter 2 text, with changes tracked Chapter2Draft2017TrackChanges
- Chapter 3, no changes
- The 2017 version of Chapter 5 has been completely replaced
- The 2017 version of Appendix A {insert} has been replaced by a companion document ‘Looking Forwards: Durham as a Creative and Sustainable City’
- Appendix B (Appendix A in 2019 draft) minor factual changes
- Appendix C (Appendix B in 2019 draft) minor factual changes
- Appendix D (Appendix C in 2019 draft) minor factual changes
- Appendix E (Appendix D in 2019 draft) minor factual changes
