The County Durham Plan consultation / viewing event this evening was attended by over 140 people, a decent turn out but not enough, and substantially less that last time.  I am increasing ly concerned about the level of the proposed development on greenbelt, and an apparent lack of consideration of brownfield and infill sites. It is as if the council wants to build on the greenbelt and on every bit of infill as well. I am continuing to urge the council to give much more consideration to where housing can be built on non-greenbelt land.

I am also trying to get more clarification on the process of how residents will be able to put forward views as to what they want to see in their area as part of the whole County Durham Plan proposals as there hasn’t been any consideration of this to date.

If you didn’t make the event tonight or can’t make one of the others in the next few days in the Town hall, St Johns Church or Belmont, click on the COUNTY PLAN link on the left of this page and you can see the same plans the council had on display as links.