Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of City Development seeking approval to advertise a consolidated set of proposed pre-submission changes to the Site Allocations Plan (Publication Draft Site Allocations Plan and Revised Publication Draft for Outer North East HMCA).  The purpose of this report is also to seek approval, and Executive Board’s recommendation that full Council approves the Submission Draft Plan for submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination once the advertisement period has expired (along with any further comments made on the pre-submission changes). 

Further to Minute No. 73, 21^st September 2016, the Director of City Development submitted a report which sought approval to advertise a consolidated set of proposed pre-submission changes to the Site Allocations Plan (Publication Draft Site Allocations Plan and Revised Publication Draft for Outer North East HMCA). In addition, the report also sought Executive Board to recommend that full Council approves the Submission Draft Plan for submission to the Secretary of State for the purposes of independent examination.

Board Members were in receipt of supplementary information in the form of an addendum to the submitted cover report which sought the Board’s approval to recommend that full Council provided the necessary authority to the independent inspector appointed to hold Public Examination to make modifications to the Submission Draft of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan.  In addition, Members were also in receipt of an updated version of a plan concerning Site Reference: MX2-39 (5372) – Parlington Estate, Aberford (Phase 1) which formed part of appendix 2 to the submitted report.

Members discussed the level of land proposed to be allocated for development as part of this process within the green belt, discussed specific sites Meanwood (HG2-49) and Tingley (HG2-169), whilst also considering the associated timescales regarding the submission of the Site Allocations Plan, together with the relationship between the Site Allocations Plan and the Selective Review of the Core Strategy.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the request from Development Plan Panel (10th January 2017) that Executive Board receive further information on two housing allocations at Weetwood (HG2-49) and Tingley (HG2-169) in light of the recent withdrawal by the Cricket and Rugby Clubs of their planning applications for housing development at Weetwood be noted, together with the information on such matters, as detailed within the submitted report. Also, having considered this information, and having considered the implications and risks of removing the sites at this stage with any necessary changes to the Pre-Submission Changes made, both sites remain within the Submission Draft Plan, as currently presented;

(b)  That the Board approves and recommends that full Council approves the pre-submission changes to the Publication Draft Site Allocations Plan, as set out in Appendix 1 to the submitted report;

(c)  That the Board approves and recommends that full Council approves the Submission Draft of the Site Allocations Plan (comprising the Publication Draft Plan, the Revised Publication Draft Plan for the Outer North East and the Pre-Submission Changes – together known as the “Submission Draft Plan”) for the purposes of Submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination, pursuant to Section 20 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as amended;

(d)  That the Board approves and recommends that full Council approves the Sustainability Appraisal Report, as detailed at Appendix 3 to the submitted report, in support of the Plan, for Submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination pursuant to Section 20 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 as amended;

(e)  That full Council be recommended to grant  ...  view the full minutes text for item 148