Issue - meetings

RESOLVED that:

1)        the Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options be approved for consultation for an eight week period together with publishing supporting documents;

2)        the Director of Environment, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Highways, be authorised to agree minor modifications to the Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options and other supporting documents prior to consultation. (Any minor modifications would consist of non-material alterations such as rewording and correction of typing errors).

The Executive considered a report relating to the Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options which were intended for consultation for an eight week period from 4 June to 30 July. 

The Executive Member for Planning and Highways advised that all Councils were required by Government to identify accommodation needs for gypsies and travellers and prepare a plan showing how these needs would be met.  The Plan would also allow the Council to resist gypsy and traveller sites in unplanned and inappropriate locations whilst ensuring that there was sufficient provision available to meet any identified need.

Councillor Kaiser confirmed that no site allocation would be taking place until all comments from residents and other interested parties had been received which would inform the final decisions.  The Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options document sets out how any identified future accommodation needs for gypsies and travellers could be met up to 2029.  If approved the communities’ view would be sought on the various approaches chosen to address this issue; including size and location of new gypsy and traveller sites. 

Following the consultation the Council would prepare the proposed submission plan based on the outcome of the consultation which would be subject to further consultation later this year.  The document would include detailed planning policy and guidance to inform and manage future gypsy and traveller development.

RESOLVED that:

1)        the Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options be approved for consultation for an eight week period together with publishing supporting documents;

2)        the Director of Environment, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Highways, be authorised to agree minor modifications to the Gypsy and Traveller Local Plan Preferred Options and other supporting documents prior to consultation. (Any minor modifications would consist of non-material alterations such as rewording and correction of typing errors).