Strategic Growth Statement Consultation
The nine local authorities in Leicester and Leicestershire and the Leicester & Leicestershire Local
Enterprise Partnership (LLEP) are preparing a Strategic Growth Plan to set out the aspirations for
delivering growth in Leicester and Leicestershire. It will set out, in broad terms, the amount and
location of future growth (housing, economic, infrastructure) Leicester & Leicestershire will be
expecting to accommodate until 2050.
The Strategic Growth Plan will act as a strategic planning framework for the area. This means that
local authorities will take this plan into account when developing their Local Plans. It will mean that
Local Plans, strategies for economic growth, infrastructure and investment plans of all local
authorities and the LLEP are developed within a consistent framework. This will make it easier to
plan for infrastructure and investment and secure funding for this from Government.
The Strategic Growth Statement forms the first stage in developing the Strategic Growth Plan. The
Strategic Growth Statement will form the basis for developing the Draft Strategic Growth Plan,
which is expected to be published for public consultation in the summer of 2017.
Please use this survey to provide us with feedback about our Strategic Growth Statement.
Before completing this survey, please read the Strategic Growth Statement in full as most
questions relate directly to the content of this document. The Strategic Growth Statement
can be accessed here: www.llstrategicgrowthplan.org.uk
Please note: Your responses to the main part of the survey (Q1 to Q16, including your comments) may be released
to the general public in full under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. Any responses to the questions in the
'About you' section of the questionnaire will be held securely and will not be subject to release under Freedom of
Information legislation, nor passed on to any third party.
Q1 In what role are you responding to this consultation? Please select one option only.
Resident of Leicester or Leicestershire
Resident outside of Leicester or Leicestershire
Councillor (City, District/Borough or County)
Member of staff of City, District/Borough or
County Council
Representative of Town or Parish Council
Other (please specify)
Representative of another public sector
organisation
Representative of a business
Representative of a voluntary sector
organisation, charity or community group
Other (please specify)
Please note: Only answer Q2 if you said 'Representative of Town or Parish Council',
'Representative of another public sector organisation', 'Representative of a business', or
'Representative of a voluntary sector organisation, charity or community group' to Q1.
Q2 If you indicated that you represent a public sector organisation, business, voluntary sector
organisation, charity or community group, please provide your details.
Name:
Organisation:
Postcode
This information may be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act 2000
Please note: Only answer Q3 if you said 'Resident of Leicester or Leicestershire', 'Resident
outside of Leicester or Leicestershire', 'Councillor (City, District/Borough or County)', or 'Member of
staff of City, District/Borough or County Council' to Q1.
Q3 What is your full postcode?
This will allow us to understand which part of Leicestershire you live. It will not identify your
house.
Q4 Where did you first hear about the Strategic Growth Plan 2016? Please select one option
only.
Media (radio, newspaper, other)
Contacted by council (city, district/borough or county)
Contacted by Leicester & Leicestershire Local Enterprise Partnership (LLEP)
Website
Social Media
Via a friend / family member / other person
Other (please specify)
Don't know / Can't remember
Other (please specify)
Aims of our strategic growth plan
The nine local authorities in Leicester and Leicestershire, and the Leicester & Leicestershire Local
Enterprise Partnership (LLEP), want to prepare a non-statutory Strategic Growth Plan which will:
• be clear about the opportunities and challenges that we face
• provide an agreed scale and direction for future growth, reflecting the evidence available to us
and the will of the partners
• create a single consistent strategic framework for Local Plans, economic investment plans,
transport and other infrastructure plans
• ensure that Leicester and Leicestershire is positively positioned to take advantage of private
sector inward investment opportunities and national programmes for investment
• provide the right conditions for the growth of indigenous businesses and, at the same time,
protect our natural resources, our environment and historic assets.
Q5 To what extent do you agree or disagree with our aims for the strategic growth plan? Please
select one option only.
Strongly agree
Tend to agree
Neither agree
nor disagree
Tend to disagree
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Why do you say this?
Q6 Are there any other aims we should consider meeting through the development of a strategic
growth plan?
Objectives of our strategic growth plan
We have identified several objectives that we will use to guide our work.
Q7 To what extent do you agree or disagree with our following objectives? Please select one
option per row.
Strongly
agree
We will provide a deliverable supply of
land for housing, providing high quality
homes, reflecting local styles and
distinctiveness, in a range of types, sizes
and tenures suited to local needs
We will strengthen the economic base and
maintain its diversity by providing a range
of employment sites that respond to the
needs of industry
We will maximise the potential of our
transportation corridors to deliver
sustainable development and enable the
creation of an integrated public transport
network
We will support the City of Leicester,
Loughborough, Hinckley and the other
market towns across the County as
accessible business, service and cultural
centres
We will promote prosperous and
sustainable rural communities
We will protect and enhance the quality of
the area’s built and water environments,
landscape, biodiversity and natural
resources
We will seek to achieve high standards of
design and environmental sustainability in
all new development, responsive to local
distinctiveness
We will focus on the importance of
communities, ensuring that place-making
delivers high quality development which
supports the needs of both existing and
new communities
Tend to
agree
Neither
agree nor
disagree
Tend to
disagree
Strongly
disagree Don't know
Q8 Do you have any comments on our objectives?
Q9 Are there any other objectives we should consider to guide our work?
Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
Chapter 3.0 of the Strategic Growth Statement, ‘Leicester & Leicestershire today’, sets out the key
characteristics of the area and an analysis of our collective strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats.
Q10 To what extent do you agree or disagree that we have captured the key characteristics,
strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats? Please select one option only.
Strongly agree
Tend to agree
Neither agree
nor disagree
Tend to disagree
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Why do you say this?
Q11 Are there any other key characteristics, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats we
should consider including? If so, please outline them below.
Key characteristics
Strengths
Weaknesses
Opportunities
Threats
Evidence base for future developments
Chapter 5.0 of the Strategic Growth Statement, ‘Preparing a strategy for growth’, sets out that we
will develop the Strategic Growth Plan on the basis of information and projections about future
growth and socio-economic developments.
Our evidence base will include a Housing and Economic Development Needs Assessment,
transportation modelling, a strategic rail study, sustainability appraisal, sector growth studies and
market towns studies. This will be supplemented by other studies as necessary.
Q12 To what extent do you agree or disagree that the proposed content of our evidence base
would provide a strong basis for our strategic growth plan? Please select one option only.
Strongly agree
Tend to agree
Neither agree
nor disagree
Tend to disagree
Strongly
disagree
Why do you say this?
Q13 Are there other sources of information we should include in our evidence base?
Don't know
Spatial distribution of growth
In Chapter 5.0 of the Strategic Growth Statement, ‘Preparing a strategy for growth’, we’ve also set
out a range of options for the spatial distribution of growth.
These are:
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Urban intensification
Urban concentration
Sustainable Urban Extensions
Concentration on key settlements
Dispersed growth
Growth ‘corridors’
Employment-led growth
New settlements (towns or villages)
Q14 To what extent do you agree or disagree that we have identified relevant options for spatial
distribution of growth? Please select one option only.
Strongly agree
Tend to agree
Neither agree
nor disagree
Tend to disagree
Why do you say this?
Q15 Are there any other options we should consider?
Strongly
disagree
Don't know
Any other comments
Q16 Do you have any other comments?
Please note: Only answer the 'About you' section if you said 'Resident of Leicester or
Leicestershire', 'Resident outside of Leicester or Leicestershire', 'Councillor (City, District/Borough
or County)', or 'Member of staff of City, District/Borough or County Council' to Q1.
About you
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free from discrimination and prejudice and that they meet the needs of all sections of the
community.
We would therefore be grateful if you would answer the questions below. You are under no
obligation to provide the information requested, but it would help us greatly if you did.
Q17 Are you male or female? Please select one option only.
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Q18 Gender Identity: A person has an internal, deeply held sense of their own gender. For trans
people, their own sense of who they are does not match the sex that society assigns to them
when they are born.
Is your gender identity the same as the gender you were assigned at birth? Please select one
option only.
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No
Q19 What was your age on your last birthday? (Please enter your age in numbers not words)
Q20 Are you a parent or carer of a young person aged 17 or under? Please select one option only.
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Q21 Are you a carer of a person aged 18 or over? Please select one option only.
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Q22 Do you have a long-standing illness, disability or infirmity? Please select one option only.
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Q23 What is your ethnic group? Please select one option only.
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Q24 What is your religion? Please select one option only.
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have decided to ask this monitoring question. You do not have to answer it, but we would be
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Please select one option only.
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Thank you for your assistance. Your views are important to us.
Please return your completed survey to (no stamp required):
Strategic Growth Statement Consultation, Leicestershire County Council, Have Your Say,
FREEPOST NAT 18685, Leicester, LE3 8XR
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