Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Regeneration introduced a report on proposals for the Council to adopt a Local Development Order (LDO) in relation to all designated employment areas in the Borough except for the Sanofi site and Ford Stamping Plant.

The proposed LDO would remove the need to obtain planning permission for certain kinds of development in the areas covered by the LDO.  The Cabinet Member commented that the proposal would enhance the Council’s reputation as ‘the business friendly borough’ and, in that respect, he placed on record his congratulations for the Council’s recent success in being chosen as “Best All Round Small Business Friendly Borough” at the Small Business Friendly Borough Awards 2013 organised by the Federation of Small Businesses and London Councils.

Cabinet resolved to approve the draft Barking and Dagenham Employment Areas Local Development Order, as attached at Appendix 1 to the report, for public consultation.