Current consultations

Current consultations

The Assembly is now consulting on Spatial Options for the Regional Spatial Strategy 2009 Update. The consultation is open from 10 November 2008 to 30 January 2009. A copy of the Spatial Options can be downloaded below.

The Spatial Options considers three important questions:

• How many new homes need to be built in the region – looking to the longer-term, but also taking proper account of the potential shorter-term impact of the current ‘credit crunch’?
• How well can the current Yorkshire and Humber Plan strategy accommodate the growth we need – and yet also deliver sustainable development?
• What opportunities (and in which general locations) could we best meet longer term housing needs in different parts of the Region?

The Spatial Options is a discussion document for consultation, the ideas and options it contains are not firm proposals, but the responses you give us will help shape the 2009 Update to the Regional Spatial Strategy.

You can use the online form to answer the questions set out in the Spatial Options or send us your general comments. Responses can be submitted to

RSS 2009 Update Spatial Options, 18 King St, Wakefield, WF1 2SQ

Email: rssupdate@yhassembly.gov.uk or

Fax: 01924 331559

Please submit your response by 5.00pm on 30 January 2009. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the Spatial Options please contact Martin Elliot by phoning 01924 331 555 or emailing rssupdate@yhassembly.gov.uk.

Published alongside the Spatial Options is the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping Report. More information about the Scoping Report and how you can send us your comments can be found here: Sustainability Appraisal.

The next stage of the RSS 2009 Update – during Spring 2009 - will involve the preperation of draft revisions to the Plan’s policies for housing and setting out draft proposals for where development should be located in the long term. We will be formally consulting on these draft revisions in Summer 2009. More information will be available next year.