Issue - meetings

Cabinet Member: Growth & Infrastructure

Forward Plan Ref: 2011/169

Contact: Martin Tugwell, Deputy Director for Environment & Economy – Growth & Infrastructure Tel: (01865) 815113

Report by Deputy Director for Environment & Economy – Growth & Infrastructure (CA9).

The Draft National Planning Policy Framework was published by the Government in July 2011. It sets out to articulate the Government’s economic, environmental and social planning policies for England and to provide a framework within which people and their Councils can produce their own distinctive local plans, reflecting community needs and priorities. The policies in the Framework apply both to the preparation of local plans and to development management decisions, on individual planning applications.

The report briefly explains some of the issues which have caught public attention and looks at the issues raised for upper-tier authorities, such as this Council, operating within the two-tier system. A draft response to the consultation is put forward for consideration by Cabinet.

Cabinet is RECOMMENDED to ratify the consultation response at Annex 1.

The Cabinet considered a report explaining some of the issues which have caught public attention and the issues raised for upper-tier authorities of the  Draft National Planning Policy Framework.

Councillor Anne Purse, Cabinet Member for Growth & Infrastructure,

RESOLVED:             to ratify the consultation response at Annex 1.