Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/JT/18/055

Portfolio Holders: FHDC Cllr Lance Stanbury and SEBC Cllr Susan Glossop

Lead Officers: Marie Smith and Boyd Nicholas

RECOMMENDED TO SEBC AND FHDC COUNCILS: (18 and 19 December 2018)

That the West Suffolk Statement of Community Involvement (SCI), as set out in Working Paper 1 to Report No: CAB/JT/18/055, be adopted.

(Report No: CAB/JT/18/055)

The Joint Committee received this report which requested the adoption of a revised Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) (as set out in Working Paper 1) as a framework for involving the community in planning policy and development management processes in West Suffolk.

A review of the existing FHDC and SEBC Local Plan was now required to meet the Councils’ ambitions and to safeguard communities from speculative unsustainable growth/development in the wrong locations and without the necessary strategic infrastructure.  The Local Plan would provide a positive, flexible and deliverable planning policy framework for West Suffolk.

Before starting work on the West Suffolk Local Plan, the Councils’ had reviewed and updated the SCI which explained how they would engage local communities and other interested parties in producing their Local Plan and determining planning applications.  The SCI had also been updated as a result of a number of legislative changes through the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017 and the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) 2018.

RECOMMENDED TO SEBC AND FHDC COUNCILS:

(18 and 19 December 2018)

That the West Suffolk Statement of Community Involvement (SCI), as set out in Working Paper 1 to Report No: CAB/JT/18/055, be adopted.