Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Planning Policy Manager.

(The Local Development Framework Core Strategy, Statement of Community Involvement and Appendices A-C are enclosed separately).

The Council was recommended to approve the Core Strategy, the proposals map and the Statement of Community Involvement together with supporting documents for submission to the Secretary of State.  The Council also was recommended to approve the proposed amendments to the Local Development Scheme attached in Appendix D to the report now submitted for submission to the Secretary of State.

Consideration was given to a report by the Planning Policy Manager (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) to which were attached responses to public consultations on the Core Strategy Development Plan Document, the Proposals Map and the Statement of Community Involvement.  Having been reminded of the background to the Core Strategy, Executive Councillors were acquainted with three significant changes, which had been recommended as a result of the comments received: these related to affordable housing, biodiversity and water resources. Comment was made on the lack of consistency in guidance from Government on affordable housing and on the state of the water supply in the Eastern Region.

The Cabinet noted the outcomes on work on the Sustainability Appraisal and of consultation on the Statement of Community Involvement. The Core Strategy and Statement of Community Involvement were to be considered by full Council on 20th March 2006 and Executive Councillors noted progress with to preparation of the Local Development Scheme, the timetable for implementation and the likely impact of amendments which had begun to emerge and those which could be anticipated in the future.  Meanwhile and having been acquainted with the deliberations of the Development Control Panel and of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Planning and Finance) on the Core Strategy and the Statement of Community Involvement, it was

RESOLVED

  that the Council be recommended to

(a)    approve the Core Strategy, the proposals map and the Statement of Community Involvement together with supporting documents for submission to the Secretary of State; and

(b)  approve the proposed amendments to the Local Development Scheme attached in Appendix D to the report now submitted for submission to the Secretary of State.