Issue - meetings

Local Plan

Meeting: 20/12/2016 - Cabinet (Item 4)

Minutes:

Background:

The Cabinet accepted this report as urgent to ensure that due consideration can be given to carrying out statutory consultation on the next stage of the Medway Local Plan from 16 January 2017 to 6 March 2017, as specified in the report.

This report provided information on the next stage of the formal process of preparing a new Local Plan for Medway. This included an update on preparing the plan and presented a revised Local Development Scheme which set out a timetable for production of the plan.

The report also detailed a Development Options document which had been prepared by the Planning Service as the basis for a further stage of consultation. This also set out the draft vision for Medway in 2035.

A Diversity Impact Assessment had been carried out for the Development Options consultation and was attached at Appendix 3 to the report.

Decision Number:	Decision:
144/2016	The Cabinet approved the publication of the Development Options consultation document (set out at Appendix 1) for an eight week period of statutory consultation for the purpose of preparing a new Local Plan for Medway.
145/2016	The Cabinet approved the Local Development Scheme, 2016 (set out at Appendix 2) as the Council’s timetable for producing the new Local Plan.

Reasons:

To progress the preparation of a new Medway Local Plan.