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STRATEGIC PLANNING AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE

9 November 2021

 

Local Plan Review Update

 

Final Decision-Maker

Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Committee

Lead Head of Service

Philip Coyne (Interim Director of the Local Plan Review) and Rob Jarman (Head of Planning and Development)

Lead Officer and Report Author

Mark Egerton (Strategic Planning Manager)

Classification

Public

 

Wards affected

All

 

Executive Summary

 

At the 10 March 2020 meeting of this committee, Members resolved that officers provide a short, written update at each meeting of this committee, concerning any slippage and/or progress on delivering the Local Plan Review on the timetable agreed. This report provides the requested update.

 

Purpose of Report

 

Noting

 

 

This report makes the following recommendations to this Committee:

1.   That the report be noted

 

 

Timetable

Meeting

Date

Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Committee

9 November 2021



Local Plan Review Update

 

 

1.      INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

 

1.1     At the 10th March 2020 meeting of the Strategic Planning and Infrastructure (SPI) Committee, Members resolved that officers should provide a short-written update at each meeting of the committee, concerning any slippage and/or progress on delivering the plan on the timescale agreed. This report provides the requested update.

 

1.2     The Local Planning Authority is working to a timetable set out in the approved Local Development Scheme (July 2021). This document provides for a Local Plan Review consultation under Regulation 19 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulation 2012 (as amended) from October 2021.

 

1.3     Following the resolutions made at the 4th October 2021 meeting of this committee and at the 6th October 2021 Full Council meeting, Officers undertook work in preparation for the ongoing Regulation 19 public consultation on the Local Plan Review Draft for Submission documents, as well as the concurrent consultation on the associated Sustainability Appraisal.

 

1.4     The consultations commenced on 29th October 2021 and will finish on 12th December 2021. They are being undertaken in accordance with government requirements, as well as requirements contained in Maidstone’s Statement of Community Involvement.

 

 

 

2.   RISK

2.1    This report is presented for information only has no direct risk management implications. Risks associated with the LPR are dealt with through the usual operational framework and have been previously reported.

 

 

 

3.        REPORT APPENDICES

 

·         None