Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Environment enclosed.

(a)               That the Director of Environment be authorised to inform the Welsh Government that the Council had completed using its powers to prepare a UDP under the Town and Country Planning Act (as amended) 1980; and

(b)               That the Director of Environment be authorised to ask the Welsh Government to prepare the secondary legislation (Local Commencement Order), authorising the formal commencement of preparing the LDP.

The Head of Planning introduced a report to formally complete work on the Unitary Development Plan (UDP), and to request that the Welsh Government (WG) prepare secondary legislation authorising the Council to commence preparation of a Local Development Plan (LDP).

            Following the adoption of the UDP in September, 2011, work associated with preparing the UDP ended.  Therefore, the Council was now in a position to request the WG to prepare a Local Commencement Order for preparing the LDP.  Whilst essentially a purely procedural matter, this was an important step as the Council could not undertake any formal work or make any formal decisions in accordance with its duty to prepare a LDP until the Order was in place. 

Councillor A. Woolley proposed that the Council support the recommendations as outlined within the report.  This proposal was seconded by Councillor Eng. K. Armstrong-Braun who spoke in support of moving towards preparing the LDP.

RESOLVED:

(a)       That the Director of Environment be authorised to inform the Welsh Government that the Council had completed using its powers to prepare a UDP under the Town and Country Planning Act (as amended) 1980; and

(b)       That the Director of Environment be authorised to ask the Welsh Government to prepare the secondary legislation (Local Commencement Order), authorising the formal commencement of preparing the LDP.