Statement of Representations Procedure

Sheffield Plan: Proposed Additional Site Allocations May 2025

2.Subject matter

Sheffield City Council’s draft Local Plan (the draft ‘Sheffield Plan’) was submitted to Government for examination by appointed Planning Inspectors in October 2023. The draft Plan sets out the Council’s strategy for future growth and change through to 2039 and will help to deliver Sheffield City Council’s objectives for delivering a fairer city for everyone. The Plan consists of:

The role of this focused consultation is to provide the opportunity for representations to be made on the ‘soundness’ and legal compliance of fourteen additional site allocations for inclusion in the Plan before they are submitted to the Inspectors for consideration through the Sheffield Plan Examination. See Item 5) below for more information.

3. Period for submission of representations

The period for representations will run for 6 weeks from 29 May until 11 July 2025.

4. Where to view the Sheffield Plan: Proposed Additional Site Allocations May 2025 document and supporting documents

You can view and download the Sheffield Plan: Proposed Additional Site Allocations May 2025 document and supporting documents on the council’s website -

https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/sheffield-plan-proposed-additional-site-allocations

Hard copies of the Sheffield Plan: Proposed Additional Site Allocations May 2025 document will also be available to view in the city’s libraries and Howden House from Thursday 29th May. Supporting documents can be viewed at our main office, Howden House, 1 Union Street, Sheffield S1 2SH.

Supporting documents submitted with the Sheffield Plan in October 2023, and documents produced subsequently during the course of the examination are accessible from the following website https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/sheffield-plan-proposed-additional-site-allocations . They are also available to view as hard copies at the Council’s main office, Howden House.

5. Things to consider when making a representation

We are asking for people to consider two specific questions when making representations on the Sheffield Plan: Proposed Additional Site Allocations May 2025 document:

1) Is the plan legally compliant when including these proposed new allocations?

Does the plan comply with the relevant legislation and regulations in the way it has been prepared, and in its content?

2) Is the plan ‘sound’ when including these proposed new allocations?

Has the plan been ‘positively prepared?’ Is it robustly justified and evidence-led? Will it be effective in what it sets out to achieve? And is it consistent with regional and national planning policy?

If you would like to be heard at the independent examination in public, please tell us in your representation. Please double check that the contact details you include with your representation are correct so that the Programme Officer can contact you regarding this.

6. How to submit your representation

Online through our consultation hub webpage:

https://haveyoursay.sheffield.gov.uk/sheffield-plan-proposed-additional-site-allocations

or

By Email at sheffieldplan@sheffield.gov.uk

or

By post at

Strategic Planning Team

Planning Service

5th Floor, Howden House

Sheffield

S1 2SH

Please note: all comments will be made public and will be submitted to the Secretary of State. We will not consider confidential or anonymous responses. Your comments and name will be published but other personal information will remain confidential.

The next stages of the Plan are:-

If you wish to be contacted about any of these stages, please tell us in your representation when and how you would like to be contacted.

8. Contact for more information:

Please contact the Strategic Planning team using the contact details above.