The draft Bridging Island Plan: Post-consultation report was published on the 1 September.

This interactive webinar is aimed at ensuring the policy issues raised in the Minister for the Environment's post-consultation report are understood, to support consideration of further representations which can be made to the Planning Inspectors between 11th and 22nd of October 2021.

The initial representations made in relation to the draft Bridging Island Plan can be viewed here.

The Minster's for the Environment’s Post-Consultation Report can be viewed here.

Please note: this is intended to be an informative session about the Minister for the Environment's post-consultation report , and where to find relevant information in relation to it . This webinar is not a forum for making representations, which at this stage of the programme should be made to the planning inspectors.

All further representations on the bridging Island Plan must be made between 11th and 22nd of October, and should be sent to Helen Wilson, Programme Officer (progofficer@aol.com). Please do not send representations to the Minister for the Environment or Island Plan review team as they will not be registered.

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Further information about the current stage of examination in public of the draft Bridging Island Plan

The examination of the draft Bridging Island Plan is now under way. More information about the examination process can be found at www.gov.je/IslandPlanEiP.

The Inspectors are now inviting further representations as follows:

1. Anyone who has submitted an initial representation (i.e. submitted a comment during the draft Bridging Island Plan consultation held earlier this year) may submit a further representation in relation to matters which have previously been raised by any representation to the draft Bridging Island Plan (both public representations and States Members’ Amendments); matters raised by the Minister for the Environment’s Post-Consultation Report; matters to be addressed as set out in the EiP Programme; or matters to be raised at the Plenary session (where material to the Plan).

A further representation can be made whether or not you have been invited and agreed to participate at the thematic hearing sessions or have elected to appear and be heard at the plenary session. Where you are to be a participant at a thematic or plenary hearing session, you must identify any substantive points which you wish to expand on at the hearing session. There will be no opportunity to submit separate statements.

2. Where an initial representation has not otherwise been made, the Inspectors are inviting new representations (which may be made by any person who has a legitimate interest) on the following matters of significance that have emerged, with particular reference to:

i. The alternative sites for affordable housing suggested by SR 26 (page 79) of Part 3 of the Minister for the Environment’s Post-Consultation Report, listed in Appendix 2 to the EiP Programme.

ii. The alternative policy options posed by the Minister for the Environment for further consideration, including those further changes which the Minister is minded to make, as set out in Part 3: Statement Responses of his Post-Consultation Report.

iii. The sites suggested for allocation in the initial representations received to the draft Bridging Island Plan consultation (non-allocated sites), set out in the list at Appendix 3 of the EiP Programme.

iv. The modifications described as substantive in Part 6 of the Minister for the Environment’s Post-Consultation Report .

v. The changes suggested by States Members amendments that the Minister for the Environment is minded to accept in Part 5 of his Post-Consultation Report.

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If you cannot attend this webinar, queries regarding the Minister for the Environment's response to the consultation can be emailed to islandplan@gov.je

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