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Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2013/130

Contact: Peter Day, Minerals & Waste Policy Team Leader Tel: (01865) 815544

Report by Deputy Director for Environment & Economy – Strategy & Infrastructure Planning (CA11).

The County Council is preparing a new Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan.  The Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme sets out the programme for the production of this plan and the planning policy documents (local development documents) that will make up the plan. 

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to

(a)          approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Fifth Revision) 2013 at Annex 1, subject to final detailed amendment and editing, to have effect from 10 December 2013;

(b)          authorise the Deputy Director for Environment & Economy (Strategy & Infrastructure Planning) to:

(i)            carry out final detailed amendment and editing of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment;

(ii)          take the necessary steps to bring the revised Scheme into effect from 10 December 2013 and publish the revised Scheme, in accordance with Sections 15 and 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended).

The County Council is preparing a new Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan.  Cabinet considered the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme that sets out the programme for the production of this plan and the planning policy documents (local development documents) that will make up the plan.

Councillor John Sanders, Cabinet Member for Environment was pleased that the Council was still on target for the date of December 2015. He referred to previous problems with the Plan and the difficulties this could cause for the council.

During discussion the Chairman expressed his thankfulness that the previous plan had not been adopted with its higher levels of extraction.

Councillor Nimmo Smith in moving the recommendations outlined the role that the Cabinet Advisory Group would play.

RESOLVED:             to

(a)          approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Fifth Revision) 2013 at Annex 1, subject to final detailed amendment and editing, to have effect from 10 December 2013;

(b)          authorise the Deputy Director for Environment & Economy (Strategy & Infrastructure Planning) to:

(i)            carry out final detailed amendment and editing of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment;

(ii)          take the necessary steps to bring the revised Scheme into effect from 10 December 2013 and publish the revised Scheme, in accordance with Sections 15 and 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended).