Issue - meetings

Items PE 21/22 and PE 21/29 referred from Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 10 November 2021

The report providing details of financial and value for money implications was considered in private so that the financial or business affairs of any particular person were not disclosed and therefore has not been attached.

Consideration of recommendations (PE 21/22 and PE 21/29) to the Cabinet from the meeting of the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 10 November 2021.

The Cabinet resolved that:

(1)                     the contents of the report, including the proposed way forward in respect of the new Call for Sites exercise set out in section 1.1.9 to 1.1.16 and Annex 2 to the report be noted;

(2)                     the Local Development Scheme, set out at Annex 3 to the report, be approved subject to the financial implications detailed in the Part 2 report on the Local Plan Update;

(3)                     the additional funding requirement of circa £200,000 for the delivery of the Local Plan, as laid out in the Part 1 report on the Local Plan Update, be approved; and

(4)                     it be noted that the increased budget provisions will be reflected in the budget setting processes for 2022/23 and 2023/24

Decision Notice: D220008CAB

Consideration was given to the recommendations of the the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board meeting held on 10 November 2021 (PE 21/22 and PE 21/29).

RESOLVED:  That:

(1)                     the contents of the report, including the proposed way forward in respect of the new Call for Sites exercise set out in section 1.1.9 to 1.1.16 and Annex 2 to the report be noted;

(2)                     the Local Development Scheme, set out at Annex 3 to the report, be approved subject to the financial implications detailed in the Part 2 report on the Local Plan Update;

(3)                     the additional funding requirement of circa £200,000 for the delivery of the Local Plan, as laid out in the Part 1 report on the Local Plan Update, be approved; and

(4)                     it be noted that the increased budget provisions will be reflected in the budget setting processes for 2022/23 and 2023/24.

This report provides an update of progress made following the decision of Full Council in July to withdraw the Local Plan submitted in January 2021 and prepare a revised Plan at the earliest opportunity.  It sets out the priority pieces of evidence that need to be updated in order to prepare a document for Regulation 18 consultations to commence in 2022, including a Call for Sites exercise and seeks approval for a revised Local Development Scheme setting out the key milestones to Adoption.

The report of the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health provided an update on progress made in preparing a revised Plan following the decision made at Council in July 2021 to withdraw the Local Plan submitted to the Secretary of State on 23 January 2021.  The report set out the priority pieces of evidence which needed to be updated to prepare a document for the Regulation 18 consultations, including a Call for Sites exercise, and sought approval for a revised Local Plan Development Scheme setting out the key milestones to Adoption.  It was noted that a report on the Local Plan Update, to be considered in private, provided details of financial and value for money implications (Minute Number PE 21/29 refers).

RECOMMENDED:  That

(1)         the contents of the report, including the proposed way forward in respect of the new Call for Sites exercise set out in Section 1.1.9 to 1.1.16 and Annex 2 to the report, be noted; and

(2)         the Local Development Scheme, set out at Annex 3 to the report, be approved subject to the financial implications detailed in the Part 2 report on the Local Plan Update.

*Referred to Cabinet