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LEEDS LOCAL
DEVELOPMENT
FRAMEWORK
ANNUAL MONITORING REPORT
December 2009
Extracts
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West Leeds Gateway Area Action Plan
Most activity was focused on the preparation and undertaking of the public consultation for the West Leeds Gateway Area Action Plan Preferred Options from February to April 2008. This activity was undertaken under the old Section 26 regulations which were updated in 2008 and 2009. The responses from the Preferred Options were used to update the AAP in preparation for submission.
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The Statement of Community Involvement in the Consultation Process . The West Leeds Gateway Area Action Plan (Preferred Options) consultation began in the previous monitoring year but ended in April 2008. There was a wide range of consultees sent notice, which included the Statutory Consultees, libraries, MPs, Councillors, adjacent Local Authorities, 18 Consultancies, 110 individuals, 28 societies/groups and 171 Other bodies.
It is clear that a uniform approach to undertaking and evaluating consultation has not been applied over the past year. However the wide range of activities and responses indicates that the SCI has been implemented appropriately. It will be important that further work is undertaken to monitor the types of effective consultation, whether socially excluded groups and people are participating and whether new means and methods of consultation are necessary.
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Neighbourhoods for Living’
(document LCC) Leeds dimension for national urban design guidance on residential development .
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Most new residential development will take place within existing neighbourhoods/benefit from their existing local centres and neighbourhood shopping facilities. So it is important that new
development is conceived as part of the overall neighbourhood, with enhanced walking access to support existing centres and facilities. In Leeds there is a patchwork of existing neighbourhoods which have distinct identities based on their particular form or special character,focused on local and town centres.
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