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The four Black Country Local Authorities (Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton) have agreed to work together to produce a Black Country Core Strategy in partnership with the community and other key organisations such as volutuntary and private sector bodies and businesses.  This will be a ‘spatial planning document’ (dealing not only with land use but also environmental, economic and social issues) that will set out the vision, objectives and strategy for future development in the Black Country to 2026. The Core Strategy will be a Development Plan Document and will form the basis of the Black Country Local Authorities’ Local Development Frameworks.

 

This site will keep you up-to date with the latest news and provide you with details of consultation events, opportunities to give your views and copies of any documents or other material available. 

 

 

We have considered the consultation responses recieved at the ‘issues and options' stage of the Core Strategy’s production. This was a key consultation stage where the community and key stakeholders took the opportunity to comment on the issues that have been identified to date and the emerging options to tackle these issues.  A summary of the consultation responses recieved and the responses to them can be found here.

 

Those consultation responses and the results from further evidence gathered were used to identify the preferred options for the Core Strategy.  These preferred options were made available for public consultation for a 6 week period from 17th March 2008 - 28th April 2008.  Further details about the preferred options and the consultation can be found here.

 

The four Black Country local authorities are now considering those consultation responses and will be further developing the Joint Core Strategy in preparation for publication in November 2009 and then submission to the Secretary of State in February 2010.  A summary analysis of the preferred options consultation responses can be found here.