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Recommendation FRP 23/4 of the Finance, Regeneration and Property Scrutiny Select Committee of 14 March 2023.

Consideration was given to the recommendation of the Finance, Regeneration and Property Scrutiny Select Committee (FRP 23/4) of 14 March 2023. 

RESOLVED:  That

(1)             All sites set out at Annex 1 to the report, be considered as unavailable for development when formally responding to the letter from the Local Planning Authority, once received, regarding TMBC owned sites identified in the Urban Capacity Study.

Decision Notice D230035CAB

Consideration was given to the recommendation of the Finance, Regeneration and Property Scrutiny Select Committee on 14 March 2023 (FRP 23/4).

RESOLVED:  That all sites set out at Annex 1 to the report, be considered as unavailable for development when formally responding to the letter from the Local Planning Authority, once received, regarding TMBC owned sites identified in the Urban Capacity Study.

The purpose of this report is to list sites in the ownership of the Borough Council and seek Members’ views in advance of correspondence from the Local Planning Authority in respect of the Local Plan.

In preparing the Local Plan, the Council, acting as the Local Planning Authority, would be writing to all landowners whose sites were identified in the Urban Capacity Study (UCS) to seek additional information about those sites, which would include the Council itself as landowner.

The joint report of the Leader, the Cabinet Member for Finance, Innovation and Property and the Director of Central Services & Deputy Chief Executive sought Members’ views on the list of Council owned sites, as set out in Annex A, which were suggested to be unavailable for development through the initial information gathering process.

Members had regard to the sites identified to be inappropriate for development at this stage, the legal implications and the financial and value for money considerations detailed in the report and sought clarity around the remaining Council owned sites as identified by the Urban Capacity Study.  In response, Members were advised that once the analysis of the remaining sites had been completed, a further report would be presented to the Committee for consideration.

RECOMMENDED: That all sites set out at Annex A to the report, be considered as unavailable for development when formally responding to the letter from the Local Planning Authority, once received, regarding TMBC owned sites identified in the Urban Capacity Study.

* Referred to Cabinet