Issue - meetings

Minute 216 refers

RESOLVED - that the Local Development Scheme (LDS) Version 4 – August 2012, attached at Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ of the report submitted, be supported to take effect from 8 August 2012.

(see also Minute 235 above)

Minute 4 refers

The Executive considered and supported the recommendations of the District Planning Executive Panel made at its meeting held on 26 July 2012 in respect of the Local Development Scheme (LDS) Version 4.

RECOMMENDED - that the Local Development Scheme (LDS) Version 4 – August 2012, attached at Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ of the report submitted, be supported to take effect from 8 August 2012.

(see also Minute 223 below)

The Panel considered a report outlining Version 4 of the Council’s Local Development Scheme (LDS), the schedule and work programme that set out when and how the Council would prepare its Development Plan Documents (DPD), namely the District Plan.  If approved, it would replace the recently agreed LDS Version 3 - May 2012.

The Panel noted that Version 3 of the LDS had set out a very challenging timetable for the preparation of the District Plan, which was dependent upon the following three key milestones being achieved:

·                                                  the decision by the Secretary of State in respect of the planning appeal into the relocation of two secondary schools on Green Belt land to the south of Bishop’s Stortford;

·                                                  the abolition of the East of England Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS); and

·                                                  satisfactory completion of Hertfordshire-wide technical work in respect of the Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL).

The Panel was advised that each of these milestones had been delayed necessitating updating the timetable within the LDS.  It was emphasised that these delays were out of the Council’s control.

The Panel recommended the LDS Version 4 as now submitted.

RECOMMENDED - that the Local Development Scheme (LDS) Version 4 – August 2012, attached at Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ of the report submitted, be supported to take effect from 8 August 2012.