Issue - meetings

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.

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.

In the opinion of the Head of Paid Service the decision is an urgent one and therefore not subject to call-in.

Resolved

That Members approved:

(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.