A GOVERNMENT-appointed planning inspector will hold a pre-hearing on Test Valley’s controversial local plan next month.
Phillip Ware is to carry out an independent examination of the Revised Local Plan which includes contentious proposals to build 1,300 homes on Romsey’s southern outskirts at Whitenap and 300 at Hoe Lane at North Baddesley. He will stage a pre-hearing meeting in public on October 15 at Test Valley Borough Council’s Beech Hurst HQ in Andover. And the meeting will focus on the procedures for the public inquiry into the plan. It will not include looking at any representations that have been made to the borough council.
Hearings to consider the content of the Revised Local Plan will start with the Test Valley north allocations on December 11 and the Southern area on January 13.
Everyone who has commented on the Revised Local Plan during the public consultation period January 24 and March 7 this year will be notified.
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