READ THE SUB REGIONAL STRATEGY

You can read the strategy itself by clicking here. To get a copy of the plan please contact your local planning department if you live in North East Wales or contact the Assembly Government directly. We also advise that you read through other information available online and the various draft versions of the plan.

For a detailed critique other than ours, please take a look at the view of the CPRE (Campaign to protect rural England) who make the following statement on their website:

‘West Cheshire/North East Wales sub-regional strategy – fundamentally flawed’

“CPRE Cheshire Branch has produced a detailed critique of the evolving planning and economic strategy for the West Cheshire and North East Wales Sub-Region which it believes is fundamentally flawed. West Cheshire/North East Wales has been identified as one of the other key sub-regional areas for the purposes of the Regional Spatial Strategy, in addition to the ‘City Regions’.

Written, in the main, by John Wesencraft, the Branch’s Planning Adviser, the critique maintains that the unsustainable commuting patterns identified between North East Wales and Chester and between Chester and farther afield would actually become worse if a ‘high economic growth’ strategy were adopted for this sub-region.

It points out that the study work carried out by consultants to date has only looked at the identified sub-region as a single unit: it has neither examined the inter-relationship between the English and Welsh Districts it covers nor looked at the effects on the wider region of concentrating economic growth in this already ‘over-heated’ area.”

Please click here to read their report in full.