Your Personal Data
Who we are
We are Chorley Council, and your privacy is important to us. We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation. The Plan is being prepared between Chorley Council, Preston City Council and South Ribble Borough Council.
If you have any concerns about how the Council is handling your personal data, these can be raised with the Council's Data Protection Officer:
Chorley Council
Town Hall
Market Street
Chorley
Lancashire
PR7 1DP
Email: contact@chorley.gov.uk
We keep our privacy notice under regular review, and we will place an updated version on this page. This will help ensure that you are always aware of what information we collect and how we use it.
The Central Lancashire Local Plan is the development plan under preparation in accordance with The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 and National Planning Policy Framework (updated December 2024) to cover the administrative boundaries of Chorley, Preston, and South Ribble.
The Plan is being prepared between Chorley Council, South Ribble Borough Council, and Preston City Council, and therefore all three Councils are data controllers for any such personal data you may give us.
Data is shared equally by all three Councils and is covered by each individual Council’s privacy notice. The data will be shared within those teams for the purposes of the Central Lancashire Local Plan partnership.
What we need
We will collect basic personal data which you provide to us about you, which includes your name, address, telephone number and email address. For mailing list subscriptions, your personal data will be kept on file by us for the duration of the plan making process and we will write to you periodically to seek your consent to remain on the database. The lawful basis for processing your data is Article 6(1)(e) of the UK GDPR – the performance of a task carried out in the public interest and in accordance with our legal obligations under planning legislation.
We will also collect more detailed information including your views with regards the Central Lancashire Local Plan as part of any consultations, and details of land ownership together with any other information you have given us and information that we receive from third parties e.g. agents.
In accordance with Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 representations are invited on the publication version of the Central Lancashire Local Plan 2023 – 2041. All representations for this Regulation 19 consultation must include a name and postal address. Anonymous representations will not be accepted. They must also include prescribed responses as set out in the Planning Inspectorate Guidance available here.
Why we need it
The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 requires Councils to make available the representations received along with the name of the person making that representation. Representations will be made available for the public to read as part of the Local Plan preparation process. Other personal details except for names will not be made available.
In some cases, in order to run virtual events by means of video or telephone conference, the Planning Inspectorate may also need to know the e-mail address and/or telephone number of those making representations.
What we do with it
For all purposes except for the data supplied by you under the Regulation 19 consultation we will not pass your details on to any third party (outside of the Central Lancashire Partnership).
In accordance with Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 consultation responses are collected and we will not disclose personal details or full responses. They will be used to inform the preparation of policies only and held on file until the adoption of the Local Plan, after which they will be destroyed.
All representations for the Regulation 19 consultation must be sent to the Planning Inspectorate and made available to view online (with all personal data redacted except for names) as part of the Central Lancashire Local Plan 2023-2041 examination process.
Copies of the comments received will be available for the public to view including the full name of the respondent and cannot be treated as confidential. Data will be processed and held in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
In addition to the processor (Delib 'Citizen Space'), we will pass your details to the Planning Inspectorate for the purposes of Regulation 22. The Planning Inspectorate’s Privacy Notice is available here.
Where you have indicated a desire to take part in the independent examination of the Local Plan, you may be contacted by the Programme Officer for arrangements for hearings. The Programme Officer is an external consultant and we will share contact details with the Programme Officer to enable contact to be made with relevant parties.
Where you have indicated that you wish to be kept informed of the progress of plan making, you will be contacted by email by the Council to notify you of progress.
What are your rights
You have the right to:
Transferring information overseas
In certain circumstances we may transfer your information to organisations in other countries on the basis that anyone to whom we pass it protects it in the same way we would and in accordance with applicable laws.
How long we keep your information
We will keep your information for as long as it is required by us or other regulatory bodies in order to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or for other operational reasons. In most cases this will be a minimum of six years. More information on our retention schedule can be found online.
You may request to be removed from the Central Lancashire mailing list at any time by e-mailing centrallancashireplan@chorley.gov.uk or writing to Central Lancashire Local Plan Team, Chorley Council, Civic Offices, Union Street, Chorley, PR7 1AL stating you wish to be removed from the ‘Central Lancashire Local Plan Review Consultations Database’.
Upon adoption of the Local Plan, we will email you to ask if you wish to be removed from the list.
Chorley Council also has a separate consultation database of people who have chosen to be kept up to date on planning policy consultations. You will need to notify Chorley Council if you wish to be removed from this database by emailing planning.policy@chorley.gov.uk
Website information
Chorley Council encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from Chorley Council so that you can understand how those websites collect, use, and share your information. Chorley Council is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the Chorley Council family of websites.
Use of Cookies
The Chorley Council website uses "cookies" to help you personalise your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a website via your web browser. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
Each Councils Privacy Notice in relation to the Central Lancashire Local Plan can be viewed below:
