Talk:Statement of community involvement

Some additional points.

Statements of Community Involvement (SCI) also include the Council's policies on the involvement of the public in relation to the consideration of planning applications.

Meeting the requirements of the Statement of Community Involvement is one of the "soundness tests" which a Development Plan Document must meet before it is adopted. Failure to follow an SCI policy could therefore cause a Development Plan Document to be found "unsound" on procedural grounds, and the Local Planning Authority will then be required to prepare the DPD again, from scratch.

The reference to the Core Strategy is incorrect. The SCI will form part of the Local Development Framework. The Core Strategy is a seperate document, also forming part of the Local Development Framework.

The process of preparing a Statement of Community Involvement is similar to that of a Development Plan Document, itself going through various consultation stages, and requiring consideration by a Planning Inspector (appointed by the Secretary of State). The Inspector's report is binding on the Local Planning Authority, as for DPDs.

The recent Planning White Paper (2007) proposes to amend various aspects of SCIs, such as making them more widely applicable to council operations rather than just planning and removing the need for independent inspection.

84.43.0.157 21:29, 2 July 2007 (UTC)