The Council’s Development Plan Document (DPD) was submitted to the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities in March 2024. The next stage of the DPD process will be an Examination in Public in September 2024, chaired by a Planning Inspector.
In conjunction with this process, Caddick has submitted an update to their current outline planning application to North Yorkshire Council following a further round of community consultation in May 2024.
We chose to engage the community in a further round of consultation to complement the Development Plan Document (DPD) process being undertaken by the Council. The detailed work in our planning application enables us to illustrate how the Council’s policy objectives can be met by tangible proposals and provides the DPD process with a considerable amount of technical information to draw on. It also begins the transition from a very lengthy policy setting process to the delivery stage.
Since our last round of consultation in 2022, we have continued to refine and update our outline planning application to respond to the evolving policy objectives of the DPD. As we approach the DPD’s Public Examination, we are seeking views on the proposed amendments to our proposals before they are submitted to the Council in the summer.
Changes to the scheme include significantly improved connectivity and access to the site and its amenities. We have also formalised public access to, and use of, the strategic green gap area through new footpaths, cycleways and bridleways, providing additional open space.
Any compulsory purchase process would be led by North Yorkshire Council. The Council has agreed to the principle of compulsory purchase in the event that it is required to deliver the later stages of the scheme.
Our outline planning application includes an Environmental Statement that considers the potential impacts of our proposals. This document includes descriptions of the pre-development situation, what impacts development could have and sets out proposed measures to avoid, or at least minimise, adverse effects.
Maltkiln would be a large development but there are well established technical measures available to us which control rainwater flows and protect environmentally sensitive areas in a far more effective and consistent way than currently occurs on farmland.
We believe that the development of Maltkiln will offer greatly increased amenities and opportunities to those living and working in the existing villages around it. Our proposals recognise the sensitivity of those villages and respect their existing character.