PROJECT NEWS

Council Approves New Documents

2024.02.27

On February 26, Council for the Municipality of the County of Richmond gave Second Reading to (approved) the proposed Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law. These documents have been submitted to the Province for review. If there are no issues with the documents, they will go into effect the day a notice is placed in a local newspaper. Click to view the approved Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law.

Updated Draft Documents Released

2023.08.31

Updated drafts of the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for Richmond County are now available.

Fact Sheets

2023. 09. 19

Planning documents can be daunting, so we created a series of Fact Sheets detailing the policy directions pertaining to the following key issues:

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Engagement for Richmond project is now complete and Council has adopted the new documents. If you have questions, please contact the Eastern District Planning Commission (www.edpc.ca).

ABOUT THE PROJECT

Plan Richmond County is a project to create a Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for all areas for the Municipality of the County of Richmond. In 2018, the Provincial Government passed Bill 58, an amendment to the Municipal Government Act that requires every municipality to develop and adopt planning. Currently, the municipality of the County of Richmond has six plan areas and a plan related to large-scale wind turbines, but there remain areas that are unplanned.

This project focuses on developing planning documents for those parts of the Municipality that currently have no planning in place.

Want to learn a bit more about the project and its goals? The video below gives an overview of the project, as well as some information about planning in Nova Scotia more generally.

PROJECT ARCHIVE

Existing Planning Documents

Second Drafts of Plan Richmond County Documents (Summer 2023)

First Drafts of Plan Richmond County Documents (from Summer 2022)

What We Heard: Initial Engagement Summary

Take a read through the initial engagement summary for Plan Richmond and see what issues were top of mind for people in the Municipality. The feedback collected throughout this process informed the Draft Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law.

To learn more about the Plan Eastern Nova project, planning more generally, and why it’s important, check out the project Home page.