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Protected trees, high hedge complaints and TPO applications

If you currently have a planning application involving protected trees, a High Hedge complaint, or TPO application, please expect a delay with any consultation or decision. We are currently diverting all our resources into dealing with the affected trees in the Norton / Stourbridge area following wildfires. We would appreciate your patience given the unprecedented demand and will respond to matters in due course.

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Residents' briefing and updates - major wildfire in Norton, Stourbridge

View the briefings and ongoing updates here.

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Black Country Air Quality Supplementary Planning Document (SPD)

The planning process has a significant role to play in helping to better integrate existing land-use and new development to encourage more sustainable development, and to secure future improvements in air quality.

The SPD set outs simplified guidance for dealing with air quality and is aimed at all those involved in the submission and determination of planning applications where air quality needs to be addressed.

Air Quality is not limited to local authority boundaries, rather the associated effects of development can have impacts across wider regional areas. Therefore, to enable a consistent approach to improving air quality across the Black Country, this joint SPD has been developed to cover all four local authority areas.

Dudley Council adopted the Black Country Air Quality SPD on 21st September 2016 and is now in place across the whole of Dudley Borough.

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The SPD supplements Policy ENV8 (Air Quality) of the adopted Black Country Core Strategy (2011), and embraces the West Midlands Good Practice Air Quality Planning Guidance (2014), produced as part of the West Midlands Low Emissions Towns & Cities Programme. (PDF 0.81MB)
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In connection with the preparation of the Black Country Air Quality SPD, a Consultation Statement is required to demonstrate with whom the four Black Country Councils consulted and how they engaged with local people and other interested parties during the preparation stages of the SPD. (PDF 442.59KB)
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Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council adopted the Black Country Air Quality Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) on 21st September 2016. This adoption statement is required by Regulation 14 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2012. (PDF 92.67KB)