Issue - meetings

The Cabinet Member for City Strategy will seek Cabinet’s support that a recommendation be made to Council to amend the provision for housing growth contained in the submission draft of the core strategy to an average of 800 dwellings per annum, along with other textual amendments.  In support of that recommendation, the Cabinet Member will ask that the Director of City Strategy be instructed to prepare a report for Council highlighting the implications of these changes, along with an amended Core Strategy document, and arrange for briefings for Members.

RECOMMENDED:    i) That Council be requested to agree to amend the provision for housing growth contained in the submission draft of the Local Development Framework core strategy to an average of 800 dwellings per annum, along with other textual amendments. ^1.

ii) That the Director of City Strategy be requested to prepare a report for Council highlighting the implications of these changes, along with an amended Core Strategy document and to arrange briefings for Members. ^2.

iii)That the Director of City Strategy be also requested to include the points highlighted in the document circulated at the meeting into the revised Core Strategy document. ^3.

(This document has been attached as a late annex to the Cabinet agenda) 

REASON:                              To ensure the Council submits a robust and sustainable LDF Core Strategy for the LDF period to 2029.

Members considered a submission from the Cabinet Member for City Strategy that a recommendation be made to Council to amend the provision for housing growth contained in the submission draft of the Local Development Framework Core Strategy, together with other textual amendments.

The Cabinet Member circulated a brief document at the meeting, which summarised proposed changes that Council would be asked to approve at their meeting on 30 June 2011 (This document has been attached as a late annex to the Cabinet agenda).

Members expressed support for changes to the plan and in particular to the amendment to increase the housing requirement to 800 dwellings per annum, in accordance with the evidence base.

Following further discussion it was

RECOMMENDED:    i) That Council be requested to agree to amend the provision for housing growth contained in the submission draft of the Local Development Framework core strategy to an average of 800 dwellings per annum, along with other textual amendments.

ii)That the Director of City Strategy be requested to prepare a report for Council highlighting the implications of these changes, along with an amended Core Strategy document and to arrange briefings for Members. ^1.

iii)                That the Director of City Strategy be also requested to include the points highlighted in the document circulated at the meeting into the revised Core Strategy document. ^2.

(This document has been attached as a late annex to the Cabinet agenda)

REASON:                              To ensure the Council submits a robust and sustainable LDF Core Strategy for the LDF period to 2029.