Issue - meetings

To seek approval of the BCP Council Local Development Scheme (LDS) to come into effect from 23^rd September 2019. The LDS is attached as Appendix 1. Delegated authority is also sought to enable the Director for Growth & Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning to make any necessary minor amendments to the LDS document needed for publication on 23^rd September 2019.  

The LDS provides the community and other interested parties with an indication of what local plan documents are to be prepared by the Council and when. The timetable includes particular milestones that highlight public consultation stages where interested parties can be involved in the plan making process.

RECOMMENDED that Council:-

(a)            approves that all previous planning policy work on emerging legacy Local Plans of the preceding authorities is refocused on the preparation of an area-wide BCP Local Plan;

(b)           approve the Local Development Scheme to come into effect on 23 September 2019 and confirm the timetable to produce the BCP Local Plan and other related planning policy documents; and

(c)            delegate authority to the Head of Growth & Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning to make minor text changes to the LDS document to be published on 23 September 2019.

Voting: Unanimous

REASONS

To set out the revised timetable and framework to produce the BCP Local Plan and other planning policy documents. The LDS is effectively a project plan and does not constitute a policy document, however as the LDS sets out planning policy making timescales it will impact on the Key Policy Framework.

The preparations of the LDS is a statutory requirement of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as amended by the Planning Act 2008, Localism Act 2011, Housing and Planning Act 2016 and the Neighbourhood Planning Act 2017.

Preparation of the planning documents as set out in the lDS will help deliver the Council’s strategic priorities as expressed in the emerging Corporate Plan.

The Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'D' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

Cabinet approval was sought for the BCP Council Local Development Scheme (LDS) to come into effect from 23 September 2019. In addition approval was sought for delegated authority to enable the Director for Growth and Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning to make any minor amendments to the LDS document.

The Portfolio Holder informed Cabinet that the LDS provided the community and other interested parties with an indication of what local plan documents are to be prepared by the Council and when. In addition the Portfolio Holder advised that the timetable includes particular milestones that highlight public consultation stages where interested parties can be involved in the plan making process.

RECOMMENDED that Council:-

(a)            approves that all previous planning policy work on emerging legacy Local Plans of the preceding authorities is refocused on the preparation of an area-wide BCP Local Plan;

(b)           approve the Local Development Scheme to come into effect on 23 September 2019 and confirm the timetable to produce the BCP Local Plan and other related planning policy documents; and

(c)            delegate authority to the Head of Growth & Infrastructure in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Strategic Planning to make minor text changes to the LDS document to be published on 23 September 2019.

Voting: Unanimous

Portfolio Holder: Strategic Planning