Decision details

PART 'A' ITEMS - MATTERS TO BE DEALT WITH UNDER DELEGATED POWERS OR MATTERS DETERMINED BY COMMITTEE

The Head of Planning and Housing submitted a report (previously circulated) which informed Members that the Planning Inspectorate had advised the Council that a period of public consultation was required to help ensure that the Ryedale Plan: Local Plan Strategy was legally compliant with new policies and sound when assessed against them. The Government had recently published two pieces of new national policy: the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites.

Resolved

That Council be recommended to approve:

(i)        that consultation with the public and key bodies for a period of six weeks be undertaken, specifically on the issue of compliance with the recently published National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites; and

(ii)       the schedule of compliance (Annex A) between the Ryedale Plan: Local Plan Strategy and new national policy in the National Planning Policy Framework and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites as a basis for public consultation.