Agenda and minutes

Apologies for absence were received from Deputy Keith Bottomley, Deputy Jamie Ingham Clark and Graham Packham.

There were no declarations.

To agree the public minutes of the meeting held on 19 July 2019.

The public minutes of the meeting held on 19 July 2019 were considered and approved as a correct record.

Report of the Director of the Built Environment.

The Sub-Committee received a report of the Director of the Built Environment highlighting the main changes that were now proposed to the earlier November 2018 version of the draft Local Plan supplemented by a track changes appendix covering all the citywide policies.

Officers reminded Members that there had been some informal, Working Party meetings towards the end of 2019 looking at certain elements of the Plan but that today’s meeting was a chance to review the redrafted document in its entirety. Officers went on to state that the amendments to city wide policies had been informed by consultation responses, the wider planning context and Member input to date. The next meeting of this Sub-Committee would afford Members the opportunity to review final documents around key areas of change, the ‘Safe and Secure City’ sub section which was awaiting further input from relevant officers, and the implementation sub section..

Members were informed that the key changes to the document were listed at paragraph 8 of the report and that some of these were new elements whilst others were changes to existing elements of the Plan.

Officers reported that there were still some potential risks/outstanding issues to be considered as background to the draft Plan preparation process. One of these was the London Plan with which the City Corporation’s own document was required to be in general conformity with.

The London Plan Inspectors’ Report has supported the document but recommended changes including a reduction in the overall housing target for London and reductions for a number of boroughs  The Government has not yet responded to the recommended changes and the issue has not yet been resolved.  The Deputy Chairman explored this further by questioning whether the issues that the Government had raised with the London Plan around housing in particular would have

There were no questions.

There were no additional, urgent items of business for consideration.