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Representation ID: 17606

Received: 11/10/2021

Respondent: Member of Parliament

It would be remiss of me to not comment on the consultation process. Whilst it is for the planning inspector to deem whether it has met regulatory requirements, it is very clear there has been no real intent to engage effectively with the local community. A plan of the scale and size of the Black Country Plan required a more detailed and interactive consultation. There is also a need to ensure that a plan for over 15 years of growth is based on reasonable discussion with the community to form those assumptions and not one based on minimum requirements. After all, the community are the subject matters of the needs and wants of the area in terms of housing and infrastructure.
The complexity of the online process is widely known, understood, and acknowledged by the Council itself.