Issue - meetings

In response to a question by Councillor M Newman, the Executive Member for Strategic Planning and Transport agreed that the principle of the Duty to Co-operate should be on assessed housing need and not aspirational economic growth.  He referred to the vagaries of some Planning Inspectorate decisions and commented that East Herts Council would continue to challenge neighbouring plans where appropriate.

RESOLVED – that the notes of recent Member-level meetings with Broxbourne, Epping Forest and Welwyn Hatfield Councils, be agreed.

(see also Minute 493)

Minute 34 refers

The Executive considered and supported the recommendations of the District Planning Executive Panel, at its meeting held on 16 January 2014, on the Duty to Co-Operate – Update Report.

RECOMMENDED – that the notes of recent Member-level meetings with Broxbourne, Epping Forest and Welwyn Hatfield Councils, be agreed.

(see also Minute 481)

The Executive Member for Strategic Planning and Transport submitted a report presenting the notes of the latest round of Member-level meetings with neighbouring Local Planning Authorities.

Officers advised of an error in respect of the notes of the meeting with Epping Forest District Council in which the attendees had been wrongly attributed to Uttlesford District Council.

The Panel noted the report.

RECOMMENDED – that the notes of recent Member-level meetings with Broxbourne, Epping Forest and Welwyn Hatfield Councils, be agreed.