Local Plan Sub-Committee - 28 February 2023 (7pm) (Virtual)

NOTICE AND AGENDA

For a virtual/remote meeting of the Local Plan sub-committee to be held on Tuesday 28 February 2023 at 7pm.

The livestream link to view the meeting live is provided below:

https://aisapps.sonicfoundry.com/AuditelScheduler/Player/Index/?id=4495b155-2b09-4c54-ba8e-745c656e0bb4&presID=3b389cd2c8db4294bf55c0415544d0cc1d

Members of the Local Plan Sub-Committee:

Councillors

Stephen Giles-Medhurst (Chair)

Matthew Bedford (Vice-Chair)

Stephen Cox

Rue Grewal

Phil Hearn

Sarah Nelmes

Reena Ranger

Raj Khiroya

Phil Williams

Joanne Wagstaffe Chief Executive

20 February 2023

The meeting starts at 7pm and will be virtual/remote meeting in that it will be conducted at no specific location and all participants are at various locations, communicating via audio and online.

The Council welcomes contributions from members of the public to its discussion on Part I agenda items at Committee meetings.  Contributions will be limited to one person speaking for and one against each item for not more than three minutes. Please note that in the event of registering your interest to speak on an agenda item but not taking up that right because the item is deferred, you will automatically be given the right to speak on that item at the next meeting of the Committee.  Details of the procedure are provided below:

Members of the public wishing to speak will be entitled to register and identify which Part I report they wish to speak on from the published agenda for the remote meeting.  Those who wish to register to speak must do so by notifying the Committee Team by e-mail 48 hours before the meeting. The first 2 people to register (1 for and 1 against) will be sent a link so that they can join the meeting to exercise that right.  This will also allow the Committee Team to prepare the speaker sheet in advance of the remote meeting to forward to the Chair of the meeting.

In accordance with The Openness of Local Government Bodies Regulations 2014 any matters considered under Part 1 business only of the meeting may be filmed, recorded, photographed, broadcast or reported via social media by any person.

Recording and reporting the Council's meetings is subject to the law and it is the responsibility of those doing the recording and reporting to ensure compliance.  This will include the Human Rights Act, the Data Protection Act and the laws of libel and defamation. The meeting will not be broadcast/livestreamed but an audio recording of the meeting will be made and will be available after the meeting.

1.         APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE

To receive any apologies for absence.

2.         MINUTES

To confirm as a correct record the Minutes of the Local Plan Sub-Committee meetings held on 26 January 2023.

3.        NOTICE OF OTHER BUSINESS

Items of other business notified under Council Procedure Rule 30 to be announced, together with the special circumstances that justify their consideration as a matter of urgency. The Chair to rule on the admission of such items.

4.       DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

To receive any declaration of interests

5.      GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION - LEVELLING UP AND REGENERATION BILL: REFORMS TO NATIONAL PLANNING POLICY

This report provides an overview of the proposals contained within the Government’s Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill consultation on reforms to national planning policy and seeks approval of the officer response to the consultation in Appendix 1 to this report.

6.      LOCAL PLAN: CHANGES TO PREFERRED POLICY OPTIONS FOLLOWING REGULATION 18 CONSULTATION

This report proposes changes to some of the preferred policy options contained in the Draft Local Plan Regulation 18 Part 1: Preferred Policy Options document in response to changes to national planning policy and comments received to the Regulation 18 consultation.

7.         OTHER BUSINESS – If approved under item 3 above.

8.         EXCLUSION OF PRESS AND PUBLIC

If the Sub-Committee wishes to consider the items in private, it will be appropriate for a resolution to be passed in the following terms:- “that under Section 100A of the Local Government Act 1972 the press and public be excluded from the meeting for the following item(s) of business on the grounds that it involves the likely disclosure of exempt information as defined under Paragraphs 1 to 7 of Schedule 12A to the Act. It has been decided by the Council that in all the circumstances, the public interest in maintaining the exemption outweighs the public interest in disclosing the information.”

(Note:  If other confidential business is approved under item 3, it will also be necessary to specify the class of exempt or confidential information in the additional items.)

1.       OTHER BUSINESS – If approved under item 3 above.

Any enquiries on the agenda please contact the Committee Team by email at Committeeteam@threerivers.gov.uk