Issue - meetings

With the consent of the Chair, the Head of Regulation and Compliance made a verbal report to inform the Committee that the Council had received an application to the Planning Court which seeks permission to proceed with a claim for Planning Statutory Review under Section 113 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004. The Claimant is the owner/occupier of Greenloons Farm, Formby who is seeking an Order that the Local Plan be remitted back to the Council with a Direction that the Boundary of the Coastal Change Management Area be treated as not adopted or that the Boundary as it affects his property be treated as not adopted and that the sequential testing requirement in Policy NH4 be treated as not adopted. The Head of Regulation and Compliance reported that Counsel had been instructed to advise on the matter and that a further report would be submitted in due course.

RESOLVED:

That the verbal report, and the fact that a further report would be submitted in due course, be noted.