Where’s the consultation on new flats and houses?
- Housebuilders and Dacorum Council have yet to deliver on promised consultation with the public on major projects
- Planned communications are behind schedule
- Dacorum Investment Partnership (DIP) gives housebuilders Hill Group a shared role with the Council in key decisions on where new homes should be built
- DIP has decided that the the Water Gardens car parks would be a ‘priority’ for residential and other development
- They are also planning hundreds of extra car park spaces for the Market Square ‘neighbourhood health centre’
- In February DIP claimed it was starting on ‘ early design work and consultation with residents and local businesses, giving people the opportunity to share their views and help shape proposals as they are developed.’
- DIP aims to submit planning applications for developments on the Civic Centre site and Cherry Bounce in October.
- BUT we are not aware that there has been any consultation on these imminent major projects
- DIP promised to launch an independent website, a stakeholder newsletter, social media channels and digital campaigns by the end of May.
- We are not aware that any of that communication has actually happened.
- HAVE WE MISSED SOMETHING?