Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services regarding suggested preferred options for inclusion in the Core Strategy Development Plan Document for approval by Council as a basis for consultation.

(Appendices 1–3 are attached separately.  Please retain your copies for the Special Meeting of the Council to be held on 25^th May 2005.)

It was recommended that the Special Meeting of the Council to be held on 25^th May 2005 approve the content of the Core Strategy: Preferred Options Report as a basis for public consultation.

A report by the Head of Planning Services was submitted (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) inviting the Cabinet to consider suggested preferred options for inclusion in the Council’s Core Strategy Development Plan Document (DPD).

Members were reminded that the core strategy would describe a spatial vision for the District and criteria-based policies to guide the development and use of land and would form a framework for a range of documents, which would include a planning proposals DPD containing site specific allocations.

The Development Plans Manager reported on the findings of the Draft Final Sustainability Appraisal and Strategic Environmental Assessment to be circulated for the Special Council meeting on 25th May 2005.  Members were informed that this had been produced by consultants and examined the suggested options against social, economic and environmental criteria to ensure the approaches recommended would be more sustainable than the alternatives identified.

Having been reminded of the timescale and procedure for public consultation and consideration by the Council prior to its submission to the Secretary of State, the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  that the Council be recommended to approve the content of the Core Strategy:  Preferred Options Report as a basis for public consultation.