Decision details

The purpose of this report is to consider the results of the consultation on the Gypsy and Traveller Development Plan Document Issues and Options 2 - Site Options and Policies, and its supporting documents. The expectation by this time was that the Government would have published the draft Localism Bill, and provided the promised new guidance regarding planning for Gypsy and Traveller accommodation. This has not been the case. Therefore the report is focused on identifying which sites are no longer site options as a result of issues raised in the consultation, and to outline the next steps in the plan making process.

Council RESOLVED that, subject to the alterations tabled at the meeting,

(a)               The responses to representations on the GTDPD Issues and Options 1 Report and the Sustainability Appraisal at Appendix 3 be agreed.

(b)               The list of Preferred Options at Appendix 2 be approved in order for stage 2, the site options search to begin.

(c)               The actions put forward in Appendix 1 and summarised in Appendix 2 be addressed and taken forward into stage 2 of the Issues and Options process (Site options selection).

(d)               The three-tier scoring matrix at Appendix 4 be used in the next stage of the GTDPD Issues and Options process.

(e)               Authority be delegated to the Corporate Manager for Planning and Sustainable Communities, to make any minor editing changes necessary to the responses as set out in Appendices 1 and 3 with any which involve a material change being delegated to the Planning and Economic Development Portfolio Holder.