Following Councillor Bush’s replacement as a member of the Committee by Councillor M Stephenson, the Committee is requested to elect a new Vice-Chairman of the Committee who will serve in that office for the remainder of the 2024/2025 Municipal Year.

The Committee is asked to note any apologies for absence and substitutions received from Members.

To confirm and sign as a correct record, the minutes of the meeting of the Committee, held on 16 September 2024.

Councillors are invited to declare any Disclosable Pecuniary Interests, Other Registerable Interests of Non-Registerable Interests, and the nature of it, in relation to any item on the agenda.

Subject to providing two working days’ notice, a Member of the Committee may ask the Chairman of the Committee a question on any matter in relation to which the Council has powers or duties which affect the Tendring District and which falls within the terms of reference of the Committee.

The Council’s Public Speaking Scheme for the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee gives the opportunity for members of the public and other interested parties/stakeholders to speak to the Council’s elected members on that Committee on any specific report agenda item to be considered at that public meeting.

-       To update the Committee on confirmed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) published by the Government in December 2024, including the introduction of new mandatory housebuilding targets, and their implications for the Local Plan Review.

-       To seek Members’ agreement to updated versions of the ‘Guiding Principles’ and ‘Vision & Objectives’ for the Local Plan review to those previously considered by the Committee, which respond to the above changes in national planning policy.

-       To present an updated version of the ‘Issues and Options Consultation Document’ to that previously considered by the Committee in which includes revised spatial strategy options that respond to the significant increase in the amount of land required to meet the Government’s new mandatory housebuilding target.

-       To seek Members’ agreement to proceed with formal public consultation on the updated Issues and Options Consultation Document.

-     To seek the Planning Policy & Local Plan Committee’s agreement to publish a new ‘Local Development Scheme’ (LDS), updating the proposed timetable for preparing Planning documents including the Local Plan Review and the Development Plan Document (DPD) for the Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community (TCBGC).

-     To provide the Planning Policy and Local Plan Committee with an update on current progress in respect of the evidence base that will inform the review of the Local Plan.

To report to the Planning Policy and Local Plan Committee the findings of the Authority Monitoring Report (AMR), which monitors the key indicators set out in the adopted Local Plan.