Issue - meetings

Report of the Leader

The Leader introduced the report and explained that the Local Development Scheme (LDS) collects together the separate timetables for the preparation of statutory development plan documents and presents them in one document. He informed that it represented Cheltenham Borough Council’s commitment to the production of various planning documents that would make up the areas “local plan”. The Development Plan Documents it identifies as under preparation are the Gloucester Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy and the emerging Cheltenham Plan.

The Leader explained that an up to date LDS would assist with the Examination in Public of the JCS later in the year which would be followed by Phase 1 of the Cheltenham Plan. He highlighted that depending on the outcome of the JCS the timetable outlined in the LDS may change. He reported that it had been suggested that the constitution working group review the process given that such a change could happen given the inspection process.

RESOLVED THAT

The 2015 Local Development Scheme attached at Appendix 2 be approved.