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Decision details
Update of the Local Development Scheme
Decision Maker: Cabinet
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Decisions:
The Assistant Director Regeneration and Culture submitted a report to inform Cabinet of the updated timescales for the production of Local Plan documents since the last Local Development Scheme was adopted in April 2018.
Section 15(1) of the 2004 Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act requires that the “local planning authority must prepare and maintain a scheme to be known as their local development scheme”. Unless otherwise directed, a local authority is to revise its Local Development Scheme (LDS) at such time it considers appropriate.
The Local Development Scheme (LDS) sets out the timetable for the production of Local Plan documents over a 3- year timespan. The LDS needs to set out a realistic and achievable work programme.
The LDS was last updated in April 2018, in part to update the target dates and key milestones for the production of Hastings Town Centre and Bohemia Area Action Plan (AAP), but also in light of a number of national planning policy changes, it included a commitment to undertake a Local Plan Review.
Key changes to national planning policy include the delivery of the Government’s ambition to improve the supply and delivery of new homes. Considering the implications of these changes and taking in to account the Council’s staffing and financial resources, it is now more prudent and expedient to combine the development of the Hastings Town Centre & Bohemia Area Action Plan with Local Plan Review process. Hence the need to revise and publish a new updated Local Development Scheme.
Under rule 13.3, the recommendations of the report were agreed without being called for discussion.
RESOLVED that:
- That the contents of the revised Local Development Scheme be agreed.
The reason for this decision was:
So that an up-to-date Local Development Scheme is in place in accordance with Section 15 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by section 180 of the Planning Act 2008 and section 111 (7) of the Localism Act, and the Town and Country Planning (Local Development) (England) Regulations 2004.
Report author: Victoria Conheady
Publication date: 10/04/2019
Date of decision: 04/02/2019
Decided at meeting: 04/02/2019 - Cabinet
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