Agenda item

To consider the report of the Director of City Development which provides an update on the progress of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan (AVLAAP) submission draft, seeks agreement to the content of the 10^th May 2016 Development Plan Panel report (as detailed at Appendix 1) and recommends to Council that the ‘Submission Draft’ of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan as appended (which includes the Sustainability Appraisal Report and addendum) be submitted to the Secretary of State for Examination.

Further to Minute No. 21, 15^th July 2015, the Director of City Development submitted a report which provided an update on the progress of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan (AVLAAP) submission draft, which sought agreement to the content of the 10th May 2016 Development Plan Panel report (as detailed at Appendix 1) and which sought approval to recommend to full Council that the ‘Submission Draft’ of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan as appended (which included the Sustainability Appraisal Report and the addendum) be submitted to the Secretary of State for Examination.

RESOLVED –

(a)  That the contents of the 10th May 2016 Development Plan Panel report, as detailed at Appendix 1 to the submitted report, be agreed.

(The Development Plan Panel report detailed: 1) officer responses to representations to the publication draft Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan consultation; 2) proposed pre-submission changes to the Publication draft AVLAAP and Sustainability Appraisal; and 3) the process of technical and Background Paper amendments to the documents which will support the plan and form the Submission documents for the Planning Inspectorate);

(b)  That it be recommended to full Council that the ‘Submission Draft’ of the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan (including the Sustainability Appraisal Report and addendum, as appended to the submitted report), be submitted to the Secretary of State for Examination. (The ‘Submission Draft’ was appended to the submitted report along with a consolidated schedule of pre-submission changes);

(c)  That it be noted that the Aire Valley Leeds Area Action Plan has been prepared by officers within the Plans and Policies Group under the direction of the Head of Strategic Planning, and that following Executive Board and Council approval (should this be given), the plan will be submitted to the Secretary of State for Examination by an independent Inspector. It also be noted that an Examination in Public could occur as early as December 2016 and will be resourced by officers from within Plans and Policies Group;

(d)  That the process of technical and background paper amendments to the documents, which will support the plan and form the Submission documents for the Planning Inspectorate (as outlined in paragraph 3.5 of the submitted report), be agreed.

(Under the provisions of Council Procedure Rule 16.5, Councillor A Carter required it to be recorded that he abstained from voting on the decisions referred to within this minute)

(In accordance with the Council’s Executive and Decision Making Procedure

Rules, the matters referred to within this minute were not eligible for Call In as the power to Call In decisions does not extend to those decisions made in accordance with the Budget and Policy Framework Procedure Rules, which includes the resolutions above)