The Joint Committee
considered the report of the Director of Change, Planning and the
Environment regarding the next steps to public participation for
the Core Strategy, amendments to the draft vision and objectives
and the local connection criterion for gypsy and traveller
accommodation.
Officers responded to
Members’ queries relating to, inter alia, the South East Maidstone Strategic Link
(“SEMSL”), surface water flooding, the order in which
regeneration takes place and the local connection criteria for
gypsy and traveller accommodation.
RESOLVED:
1.
That the amendments to the draft spatial vision and objectives for
the Core Strategy as set out in the report of the Director of
Change Planning and the Environment, be noted.
2.
That Cabinet be recommended:-
i)
That the Core Strategy policy for gypsy and traveller accommodation
does not include a local connection criterion.
ii)
To re-affirm their support for the Leeds/Langley By-Pass and that
reference to the SEMSL be deleted from the Core Strategy and all
relevant documents.