Issue - meetings

Report No:   CAB/FH/14/009

Cabinet Member: Rona Burt                     Lead Officer: Steven Wood

RESOLVED:

To proceed with Option 2, as outlined in Report No CAB/FH/14/009, in preparing the Site Specific Allocations (SSA) and Single Issue Review (SIR) Local Plan (LP) documents, with consultation commencing in June 2015.

The Cabinet Member for Planning, Housing and Transport presented this report which explained that the consultation draft SSA and SIR LP documents were approved for consultation in early 2014.  However, these consultations had been postponed on the basis that Officers needed to progress further work with their external consultants and continued dialogue with Counsel, to ensure that the supporting Sustainability Appraisal (SA) and Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) processes were adequately robust for both LP documents.

It was now the contention of Counsel that further appraisal was required to ascertain whether or not more housing could be delivered within the District, within the Plan period to 2031, in order to facilitate more of the affordable housing need being met.  Counsel had also advised that the distribution of the ‘final’ housing figure, did require further consideration in terms of ‘reasonable alternatives’.

Since the report had been considered by the Local Plan Working Group on 16 October 2014, further detail had been included within the report, as to when the first consultation should commence.  Taking into account the forthcoming Elections in May 2015 and the resulting Purdah period which would commence on 16 March 2015, Officers were proposing for this consultation to now commence in June 2015.  This would not result in a change in the date for the adoption of the final Plan.

With the vote being unanimous, it was

RESOLVED:

To proceed with Option 2, as outlined in Report No CAB/FH/14/009, in preparing the Site Specific Allocations (SSA) and Single Issue Review (SIR) Local Plan (LP) documents, with consultation commencing in June 2015.