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This page brings together some of the current consultations the Council and other organisations are seeking your views on.

Follow these links to find out how to have your say on planning applications and licensing applications and how to comment or make a complaint about any of our services.

Local Development Framework Core Strategy meetings

The Core Strategy has now been the subject of special meetings of the Council's Community, Customers and Partners Scrutiny Committee and Cabinet.

On Thursday 18 March it will be discussed at a special meeting of Full Council at the Trinity Park Showground starting at 6pm.

Full Council is being recommended to proceed towards final, formal adoption, which will occur some time during 2011. In the meantime, it is recommended that the policies as presented are adopted as interim planning policy for the determining of planning applications and enforcement.

In addition, a final recommendation is designed to safeguard the Council’s position should there be a significant change to national planning policy, something which may or may not occur should there be a change of government at the national level.

Members of the public are welcome to attend the meeting.

For more information about the Core Strategy and the Scrutiny Committee and Cabinet meetings follow the link below:

Air quality consultation

Suffolk Coastal is now undertaking a period of consultation to seek local views on the draft Air Quality Action Plan junction of Lime Kiln Quay Road, Thoroughfare and St. John’s Street in Woodbridge and the findings of the 2009 Updating and Screening Assessment report which looks at air quality across the entire district. Your comments on the reports are welcomed and will help shape future investigations and reports - closing dates for comments is 28 May 2010.

Essex and South Suffolk draft Shoreline Management Plan

The Essex and South Suffolk draft Shoreline Management Plan (SMP) covers approximately 440km of coast from Landguard Point in Felixstowe to Two Tree Island in the Thames Estuary. It will determine the best ways to look after this part of the coast in a sustainable way for the next 100 years.

Consultation on the draft plan starts on 15 March until 18 June and is being carried out by the Environment Agency. Drop-in exhibitions are being held where you can pick up a summary of the draft plan, ask questions and discuss the recommendations with members of the project team. A drop-in exhibition will take place in Felixstowe on:

  • Thursday 25 March, 2pm to 7.30pm.
    Felixstowe Town Hall, Undercliff Road West, IP11 2AG.

The draft plans and a comment form will be available on the Environment Agency website (new window) from 15 March.

Join the campaign for better broadband access

In Suffolk we are seriously disadvantaged by the speed of our broadband service. We now have a chance to improve the overall service across the county and the Suffolk Broadband Partnership is asking for everyone’s help. If you haven't already done so, please take 5 minutes of your time to register on the EREBUS (Eastern REgion Broadband Uplift Scheme) website and vote in the online survey to improve our county's chances to get funding for faster broadband.

The EREBUS survey, being led by the East of England Development Agency (EEDA), will demonstrate that Suffolk needs amongst other things - faster learning platforms for schools and homes, faster and more efficient healthcare teleservices, faster ‘do it online’ facilities and a competitive edge for our local businesses.

So far, the high speed broadband campaign for Suffolk has got off to a flying start with Suffolk registrations on the EREBUS website one of the highest in the East of England.

However the Suffolk Broadband Partnership is asking for one more push from the people of Suffolk to register on the EREBUS site to give Suffolk that distinctive edge over the rest of the region. So if you haven’t yet taken up the opportunity the Suffolk Broadband Partnership urges you to do so.

Better broadband will help Suffolk deliver on its greenest county priority, reduce rural isolation and help to address the limited access to services in some parts of our county.

Follow the link below to register your vote:

Suffolk Police surveys

Suffolk Police would like to hear your views about policing in the county. In particular, they would like to know what you think their priorities should be and whether they are dealing with the issues that are important to you. If you are in full time education in a high school or sixth form college they would like your views on issues affecting you.

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