The Secretary of State announced the revocation of Regional Strategies with immediate effect. See letter on the right of this page.
The Yorkshire and Humber Plan is the current Regional Spatial Strategy for the Yorkshire and Humber Region. It was issued in May 2008 (current RSS).
The current Regional Spatial Strategy includes a broad development strategy for the region, setting out regional priorities in terms of location and scale of development, including:
- Economic development
- Housing
- Transport and communications
- The environment (including water, minerals and waste, energy generation and use)
- Tourism and leisure
- Urban and rural regeneration
There is a two-way relationship between the Regional Spatial Strategy and other regional strategies such as the Regional Economic Strategy.
Public consultation of the Plan update
The Yorkshire and Humber Assembly, the regional planning body, is now consulting on Spatial Options for the Regional Spatial Strategy 2009 Update. The consultation closed 30 January 2009.
The Spatial Options considers three important questions:
- How many new homes need to be built in the region – looking to the longer-term, but taking account the potential shorter-term impact of the ‘credit crunch’?
- How well can the current Yorkshire and Humber Plan strategy accommodate the growth we need – and yet also deliver sustainable development?
- What opportunities (and in which general locations) could we best meet longer term housing needs in different parts of the Region?
The Spatial Options is a discussion document for consultation, the ideas and options it contains are not firm proposals, but the responses you give the Regional Assembly will help shape the 2009 Update to the Regional Spatial Strategy.