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To receive a report by the Head of Planning Services on the intended consultation and engagement process for the preparation of the new Huntingdonshire Local Plan.

noted the progress made to date on preparing the new Local Plan, the nature of the summarised responses to the initial non-statutory Local Plan Issues and Options Consultation and the anticipated next steps in the consultation and plan making process and authorised Officers to proceed to the Strategy and Consultation Stage, using appropriate consultation material the exact content of which to be agreed by the Head of Planning Services and Housing Strategy after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Strategic Planning and Housing.

Consideration was given to a report by the Head of Planning and Housing Strategy (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) on the intended consultation and engagement process for the preparation of the new Huntingdonshire Local Plan 2036.  The report had been considered also by the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Environmental Well-Being) whose comments were relayed to the Cabinet.

Having welcomed an extended strategy and policy consultation period (stage 2) and in concurring with the Overview and Scrutiny panel that the Peterborough Evening Telegraph should be included in the list of local media to be engaged to dissemination the proposals,  the Cabinet

RESOLVED

  (a)  that the progress made to date on preparing the new Local Plan, the nature of the summarised responses to the initial non-statutory Local Plan Issues and Options Consultation and the anticipated next steps in the consultation and plan making process be noted; and

  (b)  that Officers be authorised to proceed to the Strategy and Consultation Stage, using appropriate consultation material the exact content of which to be agreed by the Head of Planning Services and Housing Strategy after consultation with the Executive Councillor for Strategic Planning and Housing.

To receive an update from the Head of Planning Services on the consultation and engagement process for the preparation of the new Huntingdonshire Local Plan.

(Councillor N J Guyatt, Executive Councillor for Strategic Planning and Housing, was in attendance for this Item.)

Councillor N J Guyatt introduced a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) on the consultation and engagement process for the preparation of the new Huntingdonshire Local Plan to 2036.  Members were advised that the Local Plan presented them with an opportunity to influence how land would be allocated.  Councillor Guyatt indicated that all Members would be encouraged to discuss with him their Ward’s requirements.  Further to this Parish Councils would also be engaged.  The Head of Planning Services informed Members that a workshop would be arranged for them to review the draft Plan.

Members’ attention was drawn to paragraph 3.9 of the report, which highlighted the various methods of communication that would be used to ensure maximum engagement was acheived.  It was suggested that the Peterborough Evening Telegraph should be utilised for the dissemination of proposals, as this would ensure that the whole of the District would be covered.  This suggestion was accepted.

RESOLVED

  that the consultation and engagement process for the preparation of the new Huntingdonshire Local Plan to 2036 be noted.