The Executive Member for Planning Policy and Transport urged Members to look at the detail relating to their own areas and to advise Officers of any factual errors.
Council considered and approved the recommendations of the inquorate Executive meeting held on 4 April 2012, in respect of the Local Development Framework Core Strategy: Approach, Technical Work and Next Steps.
RESOLVED – that (A) the planning process, strategic planning tools, and approach to preparing the LDF Core Strategy, as set out in Essential Reference Papers ‘B’ and ‘C’ of the report now submitted, be agreed;
(B) the draft technical work contained within Essential Reference Paper ‘D’ of the report now submitted, be agreed for the purposes of preparing the Preferred Strategy for consultation;
(C) Planning Officers be authorised to undertake such duties as necessary to demonstrate soundness at Examination in Public, including, for example, the collection of further information from landowners and developers, and conducting joint technical work with neighbouring Local Planning Authorities; and
(D) the Head of Planning and Building Control, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning Policy and Economic Development, be authorised to update the draft technical work contained within Essential Reference Paper ‘D’ of the report now submitted, as necessary.