Statement of Community Involvement

Review of our Statement of Community Involvement

The Statement of Community Involvement outlines how the National Park Authority will involve residents, groups and other individuals who have an interest in the area and its communities in developing policies and making decisions which will have an impact upon the National Park.

Why review the Statement of Community Involvement?

The National Park Authority adopted its first Statement of Community Involvement in May 2006, since then;

• We have adopted a broader range of consultation techniques developed over the last four years;
• We want to include a wider range of issues, for example landscape, tourism, recreation, biodiversity and archaeology; and
• The Town and Country Planning regulations have changed which means our 2006 document is out of date.

A review of the document is underway, and the timetable for this is as follows:

Who can get involved ?

We want everyone who has an interest in the National Park to let us know how we can improve our consultation techniques.  We especially welcome comments from those who feel that we won’t listen to their opinion.

What can I get involved in ?

The two statutory areas of work which you can influence are the Management Plan and Planning. Planning has two aspects, which are policy making and decision taking. Other work areas which you can get involved with are the policy and guidance documents which the Authority prepares, which may include topics such as Historic Environment; Cultural Heritage; Natural Environment; Understanding and Enjoyment; Climate Change; and Accessibility.

You can contact us on:

Tel: 01434 611552
E-mail: ldf@nnpa.org.uk.

Other information on the Statement of Community Involvement

The Northumberland National Park Authority’s current Statement of Community Involvement and associated documents can be found below.

The final document was prepared following these stages:

• Consideration of the comments made on the Draft SCI during the pre-submission consultation period, 5th August - 16th September 2005.
• The revised SCI was approved by the National Park Authority on 25th January 2006 for the publication and submission to the First Secretary of State.
• The comments received during the consultation period 6th February - 22nd March 2006 have been considered and submitted to the Planning Inspectorate.

The Planning Inspectorate independently examined the report and the document was subsequently adopted by the National Park Authority.

You can download the Statement of Community Involvement, the Inspector's Report and the Consultation Statement using the links below.

The questionnaire is no longer available as the public consultation period has now ended.

Statement of Community Involvement (PDF Format, 267kb)

Planning Inspectorate Binding Report (PDF Format, 95kb)

SCI Adoption Statement (PDF Format, 14kb)

SCI Consultation Statement (PDF Format, 367kb)

The comments received during the 8th February – 22nd March 2006 public consultation period were submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for consideration. The comments are available to download using the link below.

SCI Public Consultation - Comments (PDF Format, 48kb)

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NOTE that when printing these documents you should set your printer preferences to shrink the content to fit the page, since different manufacturers' printers have different default settings for the size of page content.

Paper copies of these documents are available for inspection at the National Park Offices, Eastburn, South Park, Hexham.

For further information please contact us.