Eleven sites across the county are set to come under the spotlight as Flintshire Council announces a public consultation on its Local Development Plan (LDP).

The LDP is the council’s land use plan covering the period 2015-2030, to guide and control what development will happen, where and when, and serve as a basis for making decisions on planning applications.

A public consultation on the Deposit LDP begins on Monday and the council is urging people to have their say.

Head of planning policy, Andy Roberts, said the decision to only allocate 11 sites for development will make the process more practical and will have lesser effects on communities across the county. They include:

  • Well Street, Buckley
  • Broad Oak Holding, Connah’s Quay
  • Highmere Drive, Connah’s Quay
  • Northop Road, Flint
  • Maes Gwern, Mold
  • Land between Mold and Gwernaffield Road, Mold
  • Holywell Road, Ewloe
  • Ash Lane, Hawarden
  • Wrexham Road, Hope/Caegwrle/Abermorddu/Cefn y Bedd
  • Cae Isa, New Brighton
  • Chester Road, Penymynydd

Mr Roberts said: “The council has invested a considerable amount of time and resources in ensuring that the plan is fit for purpose and considers that the plan represents a common sense and pragmatic approach to delivering growth, whilst minimising impacts on communities. For example, the council has allocated only 11 housing sites for development which is considerably less than the previous Unitary Development Plan. Equally, 10 of these have a previous planning context and are ‘known’ to the public in advance of the consultation.

“The council also has a legal duty of care to make provision for specialised needs such as Gypsies and Travellers and the plan takes a proportionate and pragmatic approach by allowing modest extensions to existing authorised sites rather than identify new sites not known to communities. This is led by the council’s intention to extend its own managed site at Riverdale in Queensway.”

The council’s plan sets out to provide opportunities to deliver between 8-10,000 jobs, support wider sub-regional economic growth ambitions and meet an assessment requirement to provide 6,950 houses.

Mr Roberts added: “There are a number of ways that the public can make comments in support of, or objecting the plan and its proposals, but the public are particularly encouraged to use the online consultation portal via the council’s website.

“Firstly, it gets rid of paper, but it also gives people a lot more freedom to make comments on particular policies. You can easily click on a policy you want to comment on, and it will bring up an online form which you fill out, hit submit, and it comes straight to us. It keeps the process on track and speeds things up for everyone.

“We respect that not everyone is online or is comfortable with being online. If that is the case then a standard form will be available, or people can simply write-in their comments to the council.”

The consultation will run until 5pm on Monday, November 11.

Visit flintshire.gov.uk/FCCLDP