Agenda item - City Plan - formal commencement of plan making

1)             Cabinet agrees to authorise the issuing and publication of the ‘Notice of intention to commence local plan preparation’ under Regulation 19 of the 2026 Regulations.

2)             Cabinet agrees the Local Plan Timetable   as set out in Appendix 1 and delegates authority to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration to update and publish the Local Plan Timetable as required to ensure an up-to-date timetable is publicly available as the preparation of the City Plan progresses.

3)             Cabinet approves the approach to the Scoping Consultation as described in paragraph 3.8 of the report in line with Regulation 20 of the 2026 Regulations and delegates authority to agree the consultation text and undertake the consultation to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration.

4)             Cabinet delegates authority to approve, publish and submit the required information for Gateways 1 and 2 as required by the 2026 Regulations, to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration.

183.1   Cabinet considered a report that provided an update on the work so far to produce a new City Plan, and the steps necessary to transition to and progress a ‘new-style’ Local Plan as set out in the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2026 (henceforth the 2026 Regulations).

183.2   Councillors Daniel, Muten, Robins, Taylor, Allen, Williams and Miller asked questions and contributed to the debate of the report.

183.3   Resolved-

1)             Cabinet agrees to authorise the issuing and publication of the ‘Notice of intention to commence local plan preparation’ under Regulation 19 of the 2026 Regulations.

2)             Cabinet agrees the Local Plan Timetable   as set out in Appendix 1 and delegates authority to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration to update and publish the Local Plan Timetable as required to ensure an up-to-date timetable is publicly available as the preparation of the City Plan progresses.

3)             Cabinet approves the approach to the Scoping Consultation as described in paragraph 3.8 of the report in line with Regulation 20 of the 2026 Regulations and delegates authority to agree the consultation text and undertake the consultation to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration.

4)             Cabinet delegates authority to approve, publish and submit the required information for Gateways 1 and 2 as required by the 2026 Regulations, to the Corporate Director, City Operations in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Finance and City Regeneration.