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 Monday 8 December 2025.

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 Officer report to be considered at that public meeting.

To present the Tendring District Local Plan – Preferred Options Draft to the Planning Policy and Local Plan Committee and to seek its agreement for this document, along with the associated evidence base (including the Sustainability Appraisal, Habitat Regulations Assessment and other relevant technical studies) to be recommended for approval by Full Council to proceed to formal public consultation in line with Regulation 18 of the statutory plan-making process.

The Preferred Options Draft for the first time contains the full suite of planning policies and detailed policies maps recommended by Officers; incorporating and reflecting the spatial strategy, locations and sites for growth that were agreed by the Committee at its meeting on 8 December 2025 and the overarching guiding principles established at the beginning of the Local Plan review process.