Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Social Housing introduced a report on the production of supporting documents to the Council’s Local Plan to be published later in the year, which would set out the vision and priorities for growth in the Borough for the next 15 years.

The Local Development Scheme (LDS) document set out the timescales for preparing the new Local Plan while the Statement of Community Involvement Refresh (SCI) set out how the Council intended to engage with local and statutory stakeholders on local planning matters.  The documents reflected changes in legislation, national policies and local circumstances since they were last adopted in 2015 and the Cabinet Member confirmed that the SCI was an interim document which would be subject to consultation.

Cabinet resolved to:

(i)  Approve the Local Development Scheme 2019 for publication; and

(ii)  Approve the Statement of Community Involvement 2019 refresh for consultation and note that a full review of the document shall take place following the submission of the Local Plan.