Agenda and minutes

The Chair welcomed all in attendance to the December meeting of the Development Plan Panel.

To declare any personal / prejudicial interests for the purpose of Section 81(3) of the Local Government Act 2000 and paragraphs 8 to 12 of the Members’ Code of Conduct.

There were no declarations of interest.

To receive any apologies for absence.

Apologies for absence were submitted by Councillors Hamilton and Nash.

To approve as a correct record the minutes of the Development Plan Panel meeting held on 8^th November 2011.

RESOLVED – That the minutes of the meeting held on 8^th November 2011 be approved as a correct record.

To receive and consider a report from the Director of City Development providing a summary of progress against milestones set out for the preparation of Local Development Documents identified as part of the Local Development Scheme (LDS).

The Director of City Development submitted a report which presented a summary of progress against milestones set out for the preparation of Local Development Documents identified as part of the Local Development Scheme (LDS).

The Chair welcomed to the meeting the following officers to present the report and respond to Members’ questions and comments:

-  David Feeney, Head of Forward Planning and Implementation

-  Lyla Peter, Team Leader (Data), Forward Planning and Implementation.

In brief summary, the key areas of discussion were:

• Issues associated with actual and projected 5 year land supply.
• Update on housing market assessment, particularly around underlying trends in meeting housing needs.
• Clarification that there were a number of office schemes which already had planning permission for out of centre locations, despite guidance in PPS4 stating that offices were a town centre use.
• Amendment to page 57 of the report, table 28, under out of centre, all sites, to read 10,020 not 5,370.
• It was agreed to include reference in the report to the Regional Spatial Strategy, the number of windfall sites, and the number of planning applications that had not been implemented to date.
• Clarification when the Strategic Housing Land Availability Assessment (SHLAA) was due to be published.  It was advised that the SHLAA was being referred to partners and Executive Board for final approval.
• Development of the Core Strategy and evidence based approach.

RESOLVED – The Development Plan Panel recommends that the 2011 Annual Monitoring Report, be approved, subject to amendments, by the December Executive Board for submission to the Secretary of State by 31 December 2011, pursuant to Regulation 48 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004.

To note that the next meeting will take place on Tuesday, 3^rd January 2012 at 1.30pm in the Civic Hall, Leeds.

It was agreed to schedule the meeting on Tuesday 3^rd January 2012, as an informal Member workshop session.  Members also agreed to schedule a further Member workshop session on Monday 16^th January 2012, at the slightly later time of 2.00pm.

(The meeting concluded at 2.30pm.)