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Local Plan Update (LPU) Preferred Options Consultation

Meeting: 27/07/2017 - Executive (Item 32)

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Additional documents:

Decision:

That:

 

1)           a supplementary estimate of £400k to support the site assessments process for the Local Plan Update be approved; and

 

2)           the update to process be noted.

 

Minutes:

The Executive considered a report relating to Local Plan Update (LPU) Options Development which will ensure that the Council has an up to date and robust planning framework to management development in the Borough.

 

The Executive Member for Strategic Planning and Highways introduced the report and stated that the number and nature of promoted sites had exceeded expectations when setting the original budget for the Local Plan Update. Hence the requirement for supplementary funding to support the assessment process, in particular the formulation of more in-depth infrastructure delivery plans for larger sites.

 

The report stated that future consultation on the Local Plan Update would be supported by the detailed assessment of all sites. Effectively, this was an options development phase where some sites or clusters of sites would be explored in more detail to fully understand their potential, some of which would be recommended for allocation for specific uses as part of a balanced strategy for delivery.

 

Councillor Lee confirmed that the 260+ sites under assessment would be the subject of consultation with Town and Parish Councils and ward Members. In response to a question from Councillor Ashwell, Councillor Lee confirmed that the Local Plan Update was on track for completion by 2019/20.

 

RESOLVED that:

 

1)           a supplementary estimate of £400k to support the site assessments process for the Local Plan Update be approved; and

 

2)           the update to process be noted.