Councils put spotlight on your future (From South Wales Guardian)

Councils put spotlight on your future

9:41am Wednesday 15th July 2009

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TOWN and community councils in the Amman, Towy and Gwendraeth Valleys are being asked how they want to see the county develop in the future.

The Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan (LDP), currently being prepared, will govern the way the county develops over the next 15 years.

The LDP covers issues such as how development will be distributed across the county and identifies which settlements are suitable for development.

The document will also analyse future population trends as well as attempting to address the main issues affecting residents of the county regionally, nationally and locally.

In 2012, the LDP will replace current Unitary Development Plan to guide policy.

Town and community councils are statutory consultees in the preparation of the LDP and are represented on the LDP’s Key Stakeholder Forum, which plays an important role in the preparation of the plan.

Town and community councils have already been asked to detail the facilities contained within their wards with the feedback providing essential to draw up the LDP’s Preferred Strategy.

Senior Forward Planning Officer Ian Llewelyn said: “Town and community councils will continue to have an important role to play in the future stages of the preparation of the Plan.

“The next key stage in the preparation of the LDP will be the publication and consultation on the Preferred Strategy in the very near future.

“Sessions with representatives from the town and community councils will be organised following publication.

“This will provide an opportunity for the representatives to report back to their respective councils and for responses to be made.”

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