Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Environment

Forward Plan Ref: 2018/172

Contact: Peter Day, Minerals Principal Officer Tel: 07392 318899

Report by Director for Planning & Place (CA8).

The County Council must prepare and maintain a Minerals and Waste Development Scheme, setting out the programme for production of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan. The most recent revision of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme was approved in December 2017. Part 1 of the Plan, the Core Strategy was adopted in September 2017. Part 2, the Sites Plan, was commenced in September 2017 but consultation on issues and options was delayed and consequently the timetable for the Sites Plan in the December 2017 Development Scheme is now out of date and needs to be revised. In addition, changes in legislative requirements for Statements of Community Involvement mean that the Oxfordshire Statement of Community Involvement should be revised and a timetable needs to be set for this. A further revision of the Development Scheme is therefore now required.

The revised programme for the Sites Plan, taking into account the engagement of consultant support on technical work, maintains the target for adoption by the end of 2020, involving the following key stages: consultation on a draft plan in June 2019; publication in January 2020; submission for examination in March 2020; and adoption of the plan in December 2020.

The Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to:

i.          approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Ninth Revision) 2019 at Annex 1, subject to final detailed amendment and editing, to have effect from 5 February 2019;

ii.         authorise the Director for Planning & Place to:

(a)     carry out any final detailed amendment and editing of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme that may be necessary, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment;

(b)    take the necessary steps to bring the revised Scheme into effect from 5 February 2019 and publish the revised Scheme, in accordance with Sections 15 and 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended).

Recommendations agreed.

The County Council must prepare and maintain a Minerals and Waste Development Scheme, setting out the programme for production of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Local Plan. The most recent revision of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme was approved in December 2017. Part 1 of the Plan, the Core Strategy was adopted in September 2017. Part 2, the Sites Plan, was commenced in September 2017 but consultation on issues and options was delayed and consequently the timetable for the Sites Plan in the December 2017 Development Scheme is now out of date and needs to be revised. In addition, changes in legislative requirements for Statements of Community Involvement (SCI) mean that the Oxfordshire SCI should be revised and a timetable needs to be set for this. A further revision of the Development Scheme is therefore now required.

Cabinet considered a report setting out the revised Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Ninth Revision) 2019.

Councillor John Sanders, Shadow Cabinet Member for Environment, referred to the previous delays and the current timetable, seeking assurances that the Secretary of State would accept the SCI and that the Council was committed to providing sufficient resources to ensure adoption in the current timeframe.

Councillor Constance, Cabinet Member for Environment stated that the commitment was there with consultants in place. Peter Day added that the Secretary of State was no longer involved in the SCI

RESOLVED:             to:

(a)      approve the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme (Ninth Revision) 2019 at Annex 1, subject to final detailed amendment and editing, to have effect from 5 February 2019;

(b)      authorise the Director for Planning & Place to:

(a)     carry out any final detailed amendment and editing of the Oxfordshire Minerals and Waste Development Scheme that may be necessary, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Environment;

(b)     take the necessary steps to bring the revised Scheme into effect from 5 February 2019 and publish the revised Scheme, in accordance with Sections 15 and 16 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (as amended).