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First Conversation consultation

About the First Conversation consultation 

In 2020, we held the first big public conversation with our communities about what the new Local Plan should cover. We published ideas for discussion and asked for your comments. We also asked you about any sites you thought would be good for development, and sites which you thought should be protected as green spaces. 

Visit our document library to read all the consultation documents.

The First Conversation consultation [PDF, 15.5MB] resulted in over 5,000 visitors to our website, 6,000 people attending events and 30,000 views of our videos.

We received over 8,500 comments and responses to the consultation questions from a huge range of people, over 650 suggested sites for development and 21 sites for green spaces. Thank you to everyone who shared your ideas and feedback with us. 

We published all the submissions we received in September 2020 and have since updated it to reflect further sites being submitted or withdrawn and clarifications from landowners/agents as part of our checking and assessment process.

We received comments and responses to the consultation in a number of different ways. You can read more in the First Conversation consultation and Call for Sites data release – summary report [PDF, 0.3MB].

First conversation results