Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Built Environment

Further to Minute No. 63 of the meeting of the Planning Committee held on 11 January 2012, the Cabinet considered the report of the Director of Built Environment outlining the purpose and proposed content of the Local Development Scheme for 2012.

RESOLVED:            That

(1)       the draft Local Development Scheme be approved for submission to the Department for Communities and Local Government; and

(2)       it be noted that the proposal was a Key Decision but, unfortunately, had not been included in the Council’s Forward Plan of Key Decisions.  Consequently, the Chair of the Overview and Scrutiny Committee (Regeneration and Environmental Services) had been consulted under Rule 15 of the Access to Information Procedure Rules of the Constitution, to the decision being made by Cabinet as a matter of urgency on the basis that it was impracticable to defer the decision until the commencement of the next Forward Plan because there is a need to have an up-to-date Local Development Scheme.  This is purely for procedural reasons, as the independent Inspector for the forthcoming Merseyside Waste Plan will check whether the timescales in each authority’s Local Development Scheme are up-to-date and contain accurate dates for the Waste Plan.