In a quite astonishing development, Hart Council has announced a further slippage of at least 3 months in the Local Plan project just three days after publishing a revised schedule in Hart News, which itself pushed the schedule back a year.
The further revised schedule is published in papers due to be discussed at Cabinet next week.
This now sets out the following timetable (timetable and slippage compared to that announced in Hart News in brackets).
Refined Housing Options Paper* – Winter 2015 (Winter 2015, no change)
Full Draft Local Plan* – Summer 2016 (Spring 2016, 3 months slippage)
Resubmission Plan* – Autumn 2016 (late Summer 2016, 3 months slippage)
Submit to Secretary of State – Winter 2016 (Autumn 2016, 3 months slippage)
Examination – Spring 2017 (Winter 2016, 3 months slippage)
Adoption – Summer 2017 (Spring 2017, 3 months slippage)
There is a saying that keeping doing the same thing in the same way and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. Surely, some councillors can see that this project is off the rails and the management needs to change.
The image of the timetable announced in Hart News is shown below:
Hart slips Local Plan timetable again
[Update] Plan slips further in March 2016
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It was Albert Einstein who defined insanity as “do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome” Hart council may wish to heed the words of a wise man!