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Report of the Chief Planning Officer

The Cabinet considered the report of the Chief Planning Officer in relation to the Council’s proposal to develop a Bootle Area Action Plan (AAP) Development Plan Document to guidedevelopment and investment for the wider Bootle area. The report indicated that once adopted the AAP would form part of the Development Plan for Sefton alongside the Local Plan. The report highlighted that it was likely to cover a range of issues in relation to land use component but could also look to address wider factors that influenced the quality of place in which people lived, worked, shopped, socialised, undertook leisure activities, visited and invested.

The report also highlighted that the preparation of an AAP must be done in accordance with national Planning Regulations. The first stage of preparation would be the identification of the issues that the Council considered the AAP would need to address and some potential options for addressing those issues, as detailed in the Issues and Options Paper.

Approval of the Issues and Options paper would mean that the Council could engage with residents, community groups, businesses, landowners and other stakeholders.

Decisions Made:    That:

(1)      the Bootle Area Action Plan Issues and Option paper for publication and public engagement, be approved;

(2)      delegated authority be granted to the Cabinet Member for Planning and Building Control to make non-strategic changes to the Bootle Area Action Plan Issues and Options paper prior to publication; and

(3)      delegated authority be granted to the Chief Planning Officer to make minor editorial and presentational changes to the Bootle Area Action Plan Issues and Options paper prior to publication.

Reasons for the Decisions:

To allow for the Bootle Area Action Plan to progress to the first formal stage of public engagement towards its progression towards examination and adoption as part of the statutory development plan for the area.

Alternative Options Considered and Rejected:

Doing an Area Action Plan for a specific area is not statutory. However, choosing not to do one would miss an opportunity to set out a statutory framework for investment and regeneration in the Bootle area and to coordinate a land use respond to the various programmes underway in the Bootle area.