Examination of the Caerphilly Local Development Plan

Inspector Appointed

Planning Inspector Mr Alwyn B Nixon BSc MRTPI has been appointed to conduct the Examination to determine whether the LDP is sound. His role is to consider all the evidence and to produce a report for the council giving his recommendations for action. His report will be binding on the council.

The Programme Officer

The examination process has been administered by the Programme Officer, Barbara Prosser, who was independent of the council and has worked directly with the Inspector.

The Examination Process

Caerphilly County Borough Council submitted the Caerphilly Local Development Plan (LDP) to the Welsh Assembly Government on 7th October 2009.

An Exploratory Meeting was held on 8th December 2009 (details available in ED.12).

The Pre-Hearing Meeting was held on 4th March 2010 (details available in ED.33)

The Hearing Sessions of the examination started on Tuesday 20th April 2010 and closed on Tuesday 29th June 2010. The table below provides links to each hearing session and the associated documents.

The Examination Library

The Examination Library contains the following:

• Examination documents (ED);
• Examination statements (ES);
• Submitted documents (SB);
• Matters arising from the hearing sessions (MA);
• Local Authority documents (LA);
• South-East Wales documents (SEW);
• Wales documents (W);
• UK documents (UK); and
• EU documents (UE)