Response to West Suffolk Local Plan (Regulation 18) Issues and Options

Decision of:

Councillor Katie Thornburrow, Executive Councillor for Planning Policy and Open Spaces

Reference:

20/URGENCY/P&T/23

Date of decision:              

21 December 2020

Recorded on: 

21.12.2020

Decision Type:

Non Key Decision

Matter for Decision:

Response to West Suffolk Local Plan (Regulation 18) Issues and Options

Why the decision had to be made (and any alternative options):

To agree the joint response to West Suffolk Local Plan (Regulation 18) Issues and Options.

The West Suffolk Local Plan (WSLP) will provide strategic and local policies that will enable and guide the delivery of sustainable growth to 2040.

The Issues and Option stage is the very beginning of the process of producing a Local Plan. Its scope is to identify the key strategic issues. The consultation addresses and sets out options and initial ideas for the strategic policies in areas such as housing and economic growth and where the growth might take place (distribution), and the provision of strategic infrastructure. This report focuses on matters of interest to Greater Cambridge.

The consultation materials are available online: https://westsuffolk.inconsult.uk/consult.ti/WSLP_Issues_and_Options/consultationHome 

The deadline for comments is 22 December 2020.

The Executive Councillor’s decision(s):

Agreed the joint response to West Suffolk Local Plan (Regulation 18) Issues and Options.

Reasons for the decision:

As detailed in Appendix 1.

Scrutiny consideration:

The Chair and Spokesperson of Planning and Transport Scrutiny Committee were consulted prior to the action being authorised.

Report:

Please see Appendix 1.

Conflicts of interest:

None

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