Issue - meetings

Received the submission version of the Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) which set out:

·  The Council’s vision and standards for community involvement

·  A description of the local community, identifying groups who may have been under represented

·  How the community will be involved in preparing Local Development Framework (LDF) documents

·  Suitable methods for involving the community in each LDF document

·  How the community will be involved in decisions on planning applications

·  What resources will be provided to carry out community involvement on the LDF

Agreed, in order to ensure that the Council can progress its strategy for increasing community and stakeholder participation in the planning process, and that the Council stays on track with the milestones agreed in the Council’s Local Development Scheme, that:

1)  The submission version of the SCI, the summary of the submission version of the SCI and its accompanying consultation statement be approved and submitted to the Secretary of State, after which it will then be subject to a statutory public consultation period of six weeks.

2)  The Corporate Director of Regeneration be authorised to make any minor amendments as may be necessary to the SCI, its summary and accompanying consultation statement.