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The Executive Member for Planning and Growth presented the recommendations to Council. She said that the council, as the local planning authority, had to prepare a Local Development Scheme to set out a timeline to produce development plan documents. There was a new government consultation on proposed reforms of the National Planning Policy Framework and changes to the planning system which meant the new plan making process would be implemented from Summer 2025.

The Executive Member for Planning and Growth said that the timetable set out in the report may be subject to change as the scheme assumed that the relevant secondary legislation would be published in September 2025. She said that the council would continue to focus on updating the evidence base to support the District Plan review.

Councillor Glover-Ward proposed that the recommendations in the report be supported. Councillor Copley seconded the proposal.

Councillor Deering said that the Conservative group would be supporting the recommendations.

The motion to support the recommendations having been proposed and seconded was put to the meeting and upon a vote being taken, was declared CARRIED.

RESOLVED – That (a) the East Herts Local Development Scheme be agreed to take effect from October 2024; and

(b) the Local Development Scheme is published on the council’s website.

The Executive Member for Planning and Growth presented the report. She said that the council undertook a review of the District Plan in October 2023 and decided that it needed to undergo a full review. The change in government meant the secondary legislation on the revised National Planning Policy Framework was not expected until Spring/Summer 2025, and so the council had updated the East Herts Local Development Scheme to show how the District Plan would be updated in the future.

Councillor Glover-Ward proposed that the recommendation in the report be supported. Councillor Goldspink seconded the proposal.

RESOLVED - To recommend to Council that (A) the East Herts Local Development Scheme, attached at Appendix ‘A’, be agreed to take effect from October 2024; and

(B) the Local Development Scheme is published on the Council’s website.