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To invite Cabinet to consider and endorse the content of the Tendring District Council Publication Draft Local Plan and its Sustainability Appraisals for consultation and submission to Government.

That Cabinet endorses the content of the Tendring District Council Publication Draft Local Plan (as amended by the content of the Update Sheet provided to Members of the Local Plan Committee and to Cabinet) and its Sustainability Appraisals, as attached at Appendices A and B to the Report of the Leader of the Council.

Councillor Stock had earlier in the meeting declared a non-pecuniary interest in respect of item A.1 of the Report of the Leader of the Council insofar as he was a Director of the North Essex Garden Communities Ltd.

Councillor G V Guglielmi had earlier in the meeting declared a non-pecuniary interest in respect of item A.1 of the Report of the Leader of the Council insofar as:

(1)     he was a Director of the North Essex Garden Communities Ltd;

(2)     he was Chairman of the Development and Regulation Committee at Essex County Council; and

(3)     he was a Director of Lawford Housing Enterprise Trust.

Councillor Honeywood declared a non-pecuniary interest in respect of item A.1 of the Report of the Leader of the Council insofar as he was a Trustee of the John Gilders & Maskell Almshouses Trust

There was submitted a comprehensive report of the Leader of the Council which invited Cabinet to consider and endorse the content of the Tendring District Council Publication Draft Local Plan and its Sustainability Appraisals for consultation and submission to Government. The Publication Draft Local Plan was attached as Appendix A; and the Sustainability Appraisals as Appendix B to that report. Those Appendices had also been considered by the Local Plan Committee at its meeting held on 12 June 2017. The Local Plan Committee Report, excluding its appendices was attached as Appendix C to the Leader of the Council’s report.

Members were aware that the consultation documents, subject to agreement by the Local Plan Committee, would be recommended to Full Council for approval at its meeting to be held on 15 June 2017. Subject to those approvals, the documents would then go out to public consultation for a period of six weeks and Officers would then submit those consultation responses and relevant documents to the Government for the next stage of the plan making process. 

Cabinet was aware that the Council was preparing a new Local Plan to guide future development in the Tendring District between now and 2033 and recognised that having an up-to-date plan was critical for creating job opportunities, attracting investment for improved infrastructure, protecting the environment and ensuring that the new homes required to meet the needs of a growing population were built in the right locations and achieved good standards of quality and design. Without an up-to-date plan it would be more difficult for the Council to secure investment and protect the District from unplanned developments.

The Committee had before it an update sheet which informed it of alterations and/or additions in respect of the following:

(i)            Local Maps;

(ii)           Living Places;

(iii)          Sustainable Places;

(iv)         Protected Places; and

(v)          Healthy Places

Cabinet was informed that the Local Plan Committee, at its meeting held on 12 June 2017, had decided –

“that the Committee -

1.       (a)          endorses the content of Section 1 of the Council’s Publication Draft Local Plan;

(b)          endorses the remaining chapters of Section 2 of the Council’s Publication Draft Local Plan, as  ...  view the full minutes text for item 39