Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: Yes
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.
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.
As set out in report.
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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