Issue - meetings

(Report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)

The report sought endorsement of a response to a recent Sevenoaks District Council Local Plan consultation required by Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning Regulations.  Reference was made to the different approaches to addressing unmet housing need in terms of releases of Green Belt land, together with implications of the Government’s proposals on standardised methodology.  An update was also given on other matters relating to the Duty to Co-operate including the introduction of Statements of Common Ground.

Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure resolved that:

The contents of the report be noted and the response set out at Annex 1 thereto be endorsed.

Decision Notice D170078MEM

The report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health sought endorsement of a response to a recent Sevenoaks District Council Local Plan consultation required by Regulation 18 of the Town and Country Planning Regulations.  Reference was made to the different approaches to addressing unmet housing need in terms of releases of Green Belt land, together with implications of the Government’s proposals on standardised methodology.  An update was also given on other matters relating to the Duty to Co-operate including the introduction of Statements of Common Ground.

RECOMMENDED:  That the contents of the report be noted and the response set out at Annex 1 thereto be endorsed.