Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Strategic Director – Enterprise, Community and Resources, which requested approval to update the Local Development Scheme (LDS), attached at Appendix 1.

Members were advised that under statute, a council must prepare and keep updated a Local Development Scheme (LDS) that provides a timetable for the production of their statutory development plan (or ‘Local Plan’).  The LDS describes the planning policy documents that a council intends to prepare, and gives target dates for key stages in their production.  The updated LDS covers the remaining stages in the preparation of the Delivery and Allocations Local Plan that had recently gone through examination by an independent government inspector.

It was noted that the Environment and Urban Renewal Policy and Performance Board considered the updated LDS at its meeting held on 23 June 2021 and recommended its approval and adoption by the Executive Board.

RESOLVED:  That the Local Development Scheme 2021 be adopted as a formal part of Halton Borough Council’s planning framework.