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Local Plan Review Update
Meeting: 09/06/2020 - Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Committee (Item 150)
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Minutes:
The Strategic Planning Manager and the Interim Local Plan Review Director introduced the report. It was noted that the report provided was in response to the Committee’s previous resolution that a written update concerning any slippage and/or progress on the delivery of the Local Plan Review within the agreed timescale, be brought to each meeting of the Committee.
The Strategic Planning Manager confirmed that the Council, as the Local Planning Authority, would undertake a public consultation from October 2020. This consultation would examine housing, employment and retail growth amongst other topics, with a second public consultation process to take place from February 2021. Particular attention was drawn to paragraph 1.5 of the report, whereby the work undertaken by officers had been outlined.
The Interim Local Plan Director informed the Committee that of the nine garden community sites received in the call for sites process, these had been grouped down to seven. Independent Consultants had been commissioned to undertake a suitability assessment of the sites, which resulted in four sites being recommended to progress to the stage two assessment process.
The work undertaken would be completed by the end of June or early July 2020, which would help inform the Elected Member engagement exercises as included in the report.
In response to questions, the Interim Local Plan Director and Strategic Planning Manager confirmed that Members of the Committee would be able to remove and include sites and set a preferred spatial strategy, with advice from officers.
It was reiterated that the Local Plan Review would be subjected to examination from an Inspector appointed by the Secretary of State. As such, the consultation produced would need to contain an appropriate preferred approach, with reasonable alternative approaches demonstrated.
RESOLVED: That
1. The content of this report be noted; and
2. The Elected Member Engagement Protocol to be used in the run-up to the public consultation on the Local Plan Review that is scheduled to commence in October 2020 be agreed.