Decision details

Received a report seeking approval to update the three-year rolling work programme for the Local Development Framework (LDF), known as the Local Development Scheme (LDS).  The revised LDS identifies the planning documents that the Council intends to produce as part of its LDF over the next three years.  It also sets out key milestones for each document.  It must be submitted to and approved by the Secretary of State to be signed off and thereafter be kept up to date (any subsequent changes to the LDS must also be approved off by the Secretary of State). 

Agreed, in order to ensure that the Council has an up-to-date work programme for the LDF which is a requirement of the Planning & Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 and will ensure that the Council is meeting its milestones which it will be assessed against in relation to the allocation of Planning Deliver Grant, that:

1)  The Revised Local Development Scheme be submitted to the Secretary of State and brought into effect from the date at which the Government Office for London notifies the Council that the Secretary of State has signed it off.

2)  The Corporate Director of Regeneration be authorised to make any minor amendments as may be necessary to the revised LDS, including any minor amendments which may be recommended by the Secretary of State.