Decision Details

Implemented

Statutory five-year review assessment of the East Suffolk Council - Waveney Local Plan and Local Development Scheme update

Yes

Report of the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Planning and Coastal Management.

Tue 5 Mar 2024

To consider the statutory five-year review assessment of the East Suffolk Council - Waveney Local Plan and Local Development Scheme update

Planning & Coastal Management

Approved budget

Yes

Not Applicable

Andrea McMillan

Committee

Cabinet

No

No

No

No

To meet the statutory requirement to review a local plan within five years from the date of adoption to consider whether it needs updating, and to publish the reasons if it is considered that no update is necessary.

 

That based on the assessment contained in Appendix A, it is not necessary to commence an update to the East Suffolk Council – Waveney Local Plan.

 

The forthcoming planning reforms should be noted given their relevance to considering the timing of a future Local Plan;

The publication of the updated Local Development Scheme will address the expectations in the Ministerial Statement of 19th December 2023;

 

To respond to the recommendations of the meetings of Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 19th October 2023 and 16th November 2023.

The cost of undertaking and publishing the East Suffolk Council – Waveney Local Plan review assessment is met through the current budget of the Planning Policy and Delivery Team.

 

 A reserve of £400,000 is held for the purposes of future Local Plan preparation, and an annual budget of £61,200 per annum for planning policy consultancy work is currently within the Council’s medium term financial strategy, however based on the costs of previous Local Plans (see paragraph 2.51 above) additional financial resource would be needed to fully fund a new Local Plan beyond the 2024/25 year. 

To not undertake and publish a review assessment.

1. That the content and conclusions of the review assessment of the East Suffolk Council – Waveney Local Plan (Appendix A of report ES/1869) be approved and it be agreed that the Local Plan is effective and that a local plan update is not necessary.


2. That is be agreed that the review assessment of the East Suffolk Council – Waveney Local Plan (Appendix A of report ES/1869) be published.


3. Noted the information contained in this report relating to the forthcoming planning reforms. 


4. Approved the Local Development Scheme (Appendix B of this report) and agrees to its publication, replacing the Council’s existing Local Development Schemes, and that this will take effect from Friday 15th March 2024.


5. Authorised the Head of Planning and Coastal Management, in consultation with the Cabinet Member with responsibility for Planning and Coastal Management, to make any presentational and typographical changes to the Waveney Local Plan review assessment and the Local Development Scheme prior to them being published.


6. Noted the recommendations of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee meetings of 19th October 2023 and 16th November 2023 (as set out in paragraph 2.38 of this report), and that the approval of the Local Development Scheme (Appendix B) setting out an indicative timeline for a future local plan review responds to this recommendation. 

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