Decision details
Draft Thanet Local Plan - Publication stage
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
This report sets out the next stages for the draft Local Plan; specifically to seek Members’ agreement to Publish the pre-Submission draft version of the Local Plan for comment, and subsequently to submit the draft Local Plan to the Planning Inspectorate for Examination.
Decision:
Cabinet agreed:
1. The draft Local Plan with the changes proposed in the Cabinet report, and the Sustainability Appraisal, for Publication for a period of 6 weeks following Council in January 2018, to allow comments to be made;
2. To publish the Thanet Landscape Character Assessment for comment, with the intention of adopting it as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD);
3. To recommend to Council that, following the Publication period, the draft Local Plan be submitted to the Planning Inspectorate for Examination; and
4. The amendments to the Local Development Scheme (the formal Local Plan work programme) to reflect the expected timetable.
Reasons for the decision:
As set out in report.
Alternative options considered:
To publish the draft Local Plan, but in an amended form – rejected for the reasons set out in the report.
Not to publish the amended draft Local Plan – rejected for the reasons set out in the report.
Report author: Adrian Verrall
Publication date: 26/10/2017
Date of decision: 25/10/2017
Decided at meeting: 25/10/2017 - Cabinet
Effective from: 03/11/2017
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