Issue - meetings

To consider the report of the Director of City Development which seeks approval from Executive Board to recommend to Council that it approves the Core Strategy Selective Review alongside supporting material and evidence for submission to the Secretary of State so that it may be subject to independent examination by the Planning Inspectorate.

Further to Minute No. 131, 7^th February 2018, the Director of City Development submitted a report which sought approval from Executive Board to recommend to Council that it approved the Core Strategy Selective Review (CSSR) alongside supporting material and evidence for the purposes of submission to the Secretary of State, so that it may be subject to independent examination by the Planning Inspectorate.

Prior to the meeting, Board Members were in receipt of supplementary information which provided the Board with the individual outcomes from the respective consideration of the CSSR by Development Plan Panel and also Scrutiny Board (Infrastructure, Investment & Inclusive Growth), both of which met to consider this matter respectively on 20^th June 2018.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the representations made in response to the recent consultation on the proposed submission draft CSSR documents “Publication Draft” (under Regulation 19 of The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012), be noted; and that the consequential changes made to the policies, which as amended now form the Core Strategy Selective Review Submission Draft Plan, also be noted;

(b)  That the individual resolutions of Development Plan Panel and Scrutiny Board (Infrastructure, Investment & Inclusive Growth), following their respective meetings on 20^th June 2018, be noted;

(c)  That the following be recommended to Council:-

a)  To approve the Submission Draft of the Core Strategy Selective Review (Appendix 1 to the submitted report) for independent examination, pursuant to Section 20 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended;

b)  To approve the Sustainability Appraisal Report (Appendix 2 to the submitted report) in support of the Plan, along with supporting evidence and background documents, for Submission to the Secretary of State for independent examination, pursuant to Section 20 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended;

c)  To grant authority to the independent inspector appointed to hold the Public Examination, to recommend modifications to the Submission Draft Plan, pursuant to Section 20 (7C) of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended;

d)  To delegate necessary authority to the Chief Planning Officer, in consultation with the relevant Executive Member, to:-

(i) approve the detail of any updates or corrections to the submission material and any further technical documents and supporting evidence required to be submitted alongside the revised Submission plan for consideration at future hearing sessions;

(ii) continue discussions with key parties and suggest to the Inspector any edits and consequential changes necessary to be made to the revised Submission Draft Core Strategy Selective Review following Council approval during the Examination; and

(iii) prepare and give evidence in support of the revised Submission Plan at Examination.

(Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillors A Carter and Golton both required it to recorded that they respectively abstained from voting on the decisions referred to within this minute)

(The matters referred to within this minute, given that they were decisions being made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework  ...  view the full minutes text for item 17