Statement of Community Involvement
Draft Statement of Community Involvement 2025
Public consultation on the draft Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) has now closed.
Summary
The Statement of Community Involvement is a statutory document that sets out how and when the Council will carry out consultation and effectively engage in carrying out its planning duties.
The SCI is primarily concerned with community involvement in:
- the preparation of council planning policy and supplementary planning documents
- neighbourhood plan support and processes, and
- the consideration of planning applications.
The Council undertook public consultation on its revised Statement of Community Involvement for 6 weeks from Monday, 8 September to Monday, 20 October 2025.
All the comments received have been reviewed and will be presented alongside the amended document to the Council’s Executive Committee in December 2025.
The consultation document and supporting material are still available view through the Council’s dedicated planning policy consultation website. Please note that this consultation has now closed and we cannot accept any comments.
Current Statement of Community Involvement
On 6 November 2018 the Council's Executive Committee approved the SCI as Council policy which can be found below.
Impact of Covid-19 on consultation events
From January 2021 to 31 December 2021, the Council issued a temporary suspension notice of parts of the SCI in respect of publicity of planning documents as part of the Covid-19 crisis. During this period the Council was not able to make hard copies of consultation documents available within deposit locations due to the risks associated with Covid-19. All consultation documents were made available online.
This change in procedure was supported by the Government's temporary changes to relevant planning regulations introduced in 2020. The Temporary Suspension Notice has now been revoked by the Council. The Council will continue to monitor government guidance and make any necessary changes at a time of public consultation in the interest of public safety. Any changes will be clearly communicated at the time of publication of a consultation.
Please refer to the SCI - Temporary Suspension Notice - January 2021 for further details.
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Other pages in this section
- The Local Plan for the Bradford District
- What is a Development Plan?
- How to get involved
- Local Plan privacy notice
- Adopted Local Plan
- Replacement Unitary Development Plan (RUDP) for the Bradford District
- Bradford District Local Plan
- Neighbourhood planning
- Emerging Local Plan
- Evidence, data and monitoring
- The Brownfield register
- Self-build and custom housing register
- National Planning Policy
- Plan-it Bradford Newsletter
- Jargon buster
- Made Neighbourhood Plans