Wakefield Rural Strategy

Closing date: Friday 12th March

To view the draft Rural Strategy for the Wakefield District click here.

The Draft Rural Strategy aims to help strengthen and regenerate the rural parts of the district and to ensure its rural nature is enhanced to benefit existing residents, to retain and attract investment to the district, counter deprivation and poor access to services, improve the built and natural environment and benefit the district as a whole.

The largely rural former coalfield areas of the south east of the district remain a priority for regeneration measures e.g. by developing and implementing the Green Corridor Strategic Framework and Spatial Plan, but the importance to the district as a whole of retaining and enhancing the balance between the urban and rural areas is also recognised.

The draft Strategy draws on the existing Economic Regeneration Strategy, the Local Development Framework and the Regional Rural Framework and the consultation is intended to improve the Strategy itself and to develop a more practical Action Plan to be implemented over the next three years.

Come along to a workshop about the Rural Strategy on 3 March and have your say from 9.30am in the Kingswood Suite, Wakefield Town Hall. To download a copy of the event flyer or bookng form click on the links below.
 Rural Strategy Event
  Booking Form

Comments and suggestions are welcomed by Friday 12 March 2010 to

Roger Kojan, Policy Manager
Strategic Housing and Economic Development
Wakefield Council Regeneration Services
Newton Bar
Wakefield WF1 2TX

Email rkojan@wakefield.gov.uk
Tel 01924 305822
Fax 01924 305803