Take a look at our gallery from the central Ellesmere Port photo competition entries - all sent in by you.
Public consultation on the Area Action Plan (AAP) Issues and Options paper was undertaken from 19 May to 30 June 2008. To view the documents via our online consultation system, please click the link below (please note that consultation on the Issues and Options paper has now ended):
(Please contact Gemma Jones on 0151 356 6504 if you need help using this facility).
As part of the consultation process, we held community roadshows in central Ellesmere Port at Ellesmere Port Library, Ellesmere Port Market, Mecca Bingo and Trinity Methodist Church.
The council also ran a focus group on 17 June to enable residents who live in the Central Ellesmere Port area to discuss and provide more detailed feedback on the report.
To read the report of the focus group, please click the link below:
A Preferred Options document is currently being prepared, based on the responses received to the Issues and Options consultation. Sustainability appraisal of the options will also be undertaken and a Sustainability Appraisal report will be published once it has been completed. It is anticipated that consultation on the Preferred Options will begin in January 2009.
When complete the AAP will provide detailed planning guidance for the regeneration and future development of the Central Ellesmere Port area. This is an area of Ellesmere Port which will undergo significant change over the next few years and the AAP will guide its future shape.
The draft boundary of the Central Ellesmere Port area covers the town centre and extends to the Civic Hall in the west, McGarva Way and Cambridge Road to the south, the stadium and M53 to the east and Whitby Road to the north.
The purpose of the AAP is to create a vision and strategy for the comprehensive and integrated regeneration of the Central Ellesmere Port area. The AAP will set out the spatial framework for the development of a number of key sites such as the former H H Robertsons site on Cromwell Road.
The Issues and Options paper sets out the key issues facing the central parts of the town and puts forward a number of options to deal with them. One of the purposes of the Issues and Options paper is to help to pull together the planning issues in the area and to highlight how they might be taken forward.
The LDF Panel discussed the progress on the AAP at its meeting of 28 August 2008. The report can be read on the Local Development Framework Panel agenda and reports page via the following link:
To view PDF versions of the Issues & Options report, its Sustainability Appraisal, Baseline Report, Statement of Consultation and Public Notice, click the links below (the Issues and Options paper and Baseline Report appendices have been split to enable faster opening):
A draft sustainability appraisal scoping report was prepared in December 2006 and subject to public consultation. The document has now been revised to take account of comments received. To view the document, please click the link below:
To view a summary of comments received and the borough council's response to them, please click the link below:
Other studies such as the Cheshire Town Centre Study and Ellesmere Port and Neston Retail Study, have been used during the preparation of the AAP. For further information on these studies click the link below:
If you have any questions on the Area Action Plan or wish to get involved in its preparation, please contact Catherine Morgetroyd on 0151 356 6666 or email Catherine Morgetroyd.
