Agenda and minutes

At this point, Members are asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests they may have in the business on this agenda.

At this point in the meeting Members were asked to declare any personal or prejudicial interests in the business on the agenda.

Councillor Reid declared a personal non-prejudicial interest in relation to the reference to YorWaste on page 34 of the agenda, due to her role as Executive Member for Neighbourhood Services.

Councillor D’Agorne declared the same interest as above due to him being a member of the Green Party.

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting of the Local Development Framework Working Group held on 22 March 2010.

RESOLVED:             That the minutes of the last meeting of the LDF held on 22 March 2010 be approved and signed by the Chair as a correct record subject to the following amendments requested by Councillor Merrett:

·        Minute 15 – add to bullet point 6 “ but would not have the same weight of an examination process as the AAP”

·        Add to bullet point 7 “ and a commitment to providing a strategic transport link through the York Northwest site could be written into the Core Strategy”

·        Add a bullet point to state that Officers indicated that consultation with residents over the British Sugar Site would begin over the Summer and feed into an Autumn report.

At this point in the meeting, members of the public who have registered their wish to speak, regarding an item on the agenda or an issue within the remit of the Working Group, may do so.  The deadline for registering is 5.00 pm on Friday 9 April 2010.

It was reported that there had been two registrations to speak under the Council’s Public Participation Scheme.

Mark Warters raised concerns regarding the Core Strategy and the Green Belt. He disagrees with the content of the Core Strategy and urged further appraisal.

John Reeves raised concerns on the issue of supply of affordable housing. He advised that in his opinion, the present policies are not working and the Council and Developers need to hold meaningful consultation to find a solution.

The purpose of this report is to provide Members with an update on the ongoing work relating to the LDF Core Strategy, including the outcomes of the Core Strategy Preferred Options consultation.

Members considered a report which provided them with an update on the ongoing work relating to the LDF Core Strategy, including the outcomes of the Core Strategy Preferred Options consultation.

Annex A to the report provided a draft summary of the responses to the Core Strategy Preferred Options document and Annex B, which had been made available to Members, contained a full detailed summary of all the consultation responses. Officers advised that the feedback, alongside technical work would be used to inform the production of the Core Strategy pre-submission draft for the consideration of Members in Summer 2010. Members were then invited by Officers to comment on Annexes A and B.

Due to the volume of Annex B, the Chair advised that if any Members of the Committee felt that comments contained in Annex B should be considered for inclusion in Annex A, the Draft Consultation Summary, then they should email Officers with the details. Members proceeded to offer comments on the Officers report and Annex A.

Report.

• Paragraph 17(i) – Members commented that the way the percentages expressed are misleading and that while 52% felt York’s economy should grow by 1000 or more jobs, a similar but a much larger amount, 48 91% had suggested a 1000 or less lower amount would be preferable and the wording should reflect this. Members commented there were other examples of this throughout Annex A and Officers advised they would look into the matter.
• Members also requested a breakdown of the results by postcode to be shown on a map.
• Paragraph 19 – It would be useful for Members to have a bar chart or similar which outlined the timescales for producing the technical work. Officers confirmed that a chart could be produced and would be tabled with a future report to the LDF Working Group.

[As amended at the LDF Working Group meeting held on 5 July 2010]

Annex A – Core Strategy Preferred Options Draft Consultation – Summary.

Officers advised that Annex A and the current comments included in it are what they felt were ‘headline’ comments. The status of the comments included in Annex B are not diminished by not being included in Annex A and reiterated the Chairs advice to Members to email Officers with anything they wished to be included in Annex A. Members comments below are referenced by Section of Annex A:

Section 2 Consultation Documents.

• Para 2.1: Include web links to the original consultation documents.

Section 6 General and Key Diagram.

• Include comments from Government Office Yorkshire and Humber (GOYH) on deliverability and viability testing, as well as comments from others on air quality; emissions; and the Climate Change Act.

Section 9 Spatial Strategy.

• Spatial Principles -  In relation to agricultural land not being listed as an area of constraint, Members expressed their disappointment over this. Officers advised they are in continued talks with Natural England.
• Questions were raised regarding the flood maps used for the Spatial Strategy. Officers advised that maps which support the  ...  view the full minutes text for item 19.