Issue - meetings

AGREED that Cabinet:

a)          note and support the contents of the report;

b)         adopt the amendment to the Plan Review timetable (Local Development Scheme) as set in Section 3 of the report, to come into force on 18 July 2023; and

c)          request that the Chief Executive call an Extraordinary Full Council meeting be held on 20 September 2023 to agree publication of the Amended Allocations & Development Management DPD. 

The Portfolio Holder for Sustainable Economic Development presented a report which updated Cabinet on progress on the Amended Allocations & Development Management DPD, the associated progress on the Gypsy & Traveller Pitch Delivery Strategy and which proposed an amendment to the Plan Review timetable and the Local Development Scheme.

The proposed amendments to the timetable were set out in section 3 of the report. The proposed timetable would mean that the DPD would be adopted in Autumn 2024. In order to achieve the timetable an extraordinary Full Council meeting was proposed for 20 September 2023 so that the DPD could be published that month and the plan hopefully being submitted b the end of the year.

AGREED      (unanimously) that Cabinet:

a)            note and support the contents of the report;

b)            adopt the amendment to the Plan Review timetable (Local Development Scheme) as set in Section 3 of this report, to come into force on 18 July 2023; and

c)             request that the Chief Executive call an Extraordinary Full Council meeting be held on 20 September 2023 to agree publication of the Amended Allocations & Development Management DPD. 

Reasons for Decision:

a)        To allow Cabinet to note progress on the Plan Review.

b)        To agree an amendment to the timetable so that the Local Development Scheme can be updated to comply with the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and appropriate regulations.

c)        To allow the Council to agree to the publication of the Amended Allocations & Development Management DPD in September 2022.

Options Considered:

It is considered that delaying the plan production or starting the process of plan production afresh would deliver any benefits to the Council, as neither would more efficiently address the current planning situation with regard to GRT pitch provision.