FoDDC Local Planning
The Forest of Dean District Council have made a number of changes on how they notify the public of any planning applications in their area. This will come into effect from the 1st March 2024. There will no longer be letters sent to residents. Notification will be made via their website, green notices and possibly flyers. Please see below for more information:
Website
The planning page of the Forest of District Council website allows individuals to sign up and be alerted to planning applications within a chosen area. Individuals are able to track applications through their journey on line and be alerted to any changes that are made to it. This is the best way for residents to be notified of and stay in touch with planning applications
Neighbour Notification
The case officer may also decide to notify other properties at the time of their site visit with a flyer posted through the door. Such publicity will be undertaken where the case officer considers the adjoining property might be materially affected in planning terms, whose property is located some distance away from where the site notice was posted AND they have not yet commented. The discretionary inclusion of a property in any neighbour notification undertaken by this method will be assessed on a case by case basis and depend to some extent on the nature, use and layout, as well as the nature and character of the proposed development itself.
The Council is required to advertise planning applications by either posting a site notice OR notifying any adjoining owner or occupier by letter. The Council has chosen to notify neighbouring properties using site notices with the flyer process as a supplement to try to ensure that all relevant parties have the opportunity to comment.
Site notices will ideally be posted on the application site itself in a position where they can be read from a public vantage point. Where this is not possible they will be attached to the closest piece of street furniture. For most applications only one site notice will be posted. For larger sites more than one site notice may be posted, as will also occur when the frontage of the application site is not likely to attract attention from those most affected. The site notice should be displayed for at least 21 days
Please use the link below which will direct you to the FoDDC planning search page:
Forest of Dean Planning Application Search
Dymock Neighbourhood Development Plan (NDP)
On the 10th October, 2024, Dymock Parish voted to adopt the Dymock Neighbourhood Development Plan. The NDP’s purpose is to provide defined policies to support the needs and long term vision of the community. The final copy of our NDP can be found here.
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