Website and telephone payments Sunday 19 May
Our website and telephone payment systems are unavailable between 9am and 2pm on Sunday 19 May. You will not be able to pay for any council services on our website or over the phone during this time.
This Statement of Community Involvement sets out how communities and citizens will be involved in the planning system.
The planning system affects everyone living and working within a community and our wider natural environment. But it is not necessarily something that people directly engage with on a regular basis. This Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) explains why and how we will involve people and organisations (stakeholders) in decisions about planning policy-making, and considering planning applications in the Ryedale area.
Statement of community involvement (pdf / 577 KB)
Equality impact assessment
An equality impact assessment (EIA) is a structured assessment for considering and communicating the likely effects of a review of a policy in terms of equalities issues, with the aim of avoiding and mitigating adverse effects and maximising the positives. The aim is to ensure that the preparation of planning policy promotes equality of opportunity through consultation and that the objectives and outcomes of policy choices do not discriminate against individuals or groups.
As the plan review progresses, this scoping component of the EIA will allow the identification of the positive or negative impacts that a policy could have on one or more of the protected characteristics.