Issue - meetings

To consider a report of Cabinet on the Submission Procedural Requirement for the Havering Local Plan (report attached, subject to approval by Cabinet).

Three questions on report responded to.

Report AGREED by 32 votes to 6.

A report of Cabinet outlined progress on the Havering Local Plan since its publication and sought Member approval for a number of material modifications to the Proposed Submission Havering Local Plan in preparation for submission of the plan to the Secretary of State. These covered areas such as explicit support for the use of brownfield land for residential development apart from land that had already been protected for other uses such as industrial and explicit support for the use of the River Thames as for freight and transport. Details of all proposed material modifications were given in the Cabinet report. The report had been agreed by Cabinet at its meeting on 17 January 2018.

A question on the report by the Residents’ Group and a response by the Cabinet Member are shown as appendix 3 to these minutes.

The report was AGREED by 32 votes to 6 (see division 3) and it was RESOLVED to:

(i)   Agree that the material amendments as set out in section 3.1 of this report, be made to the proposed submission documents, and to the proposed Submission Havering Local Plan

(ii) Delegate authority to the Director of Neighbourhoods, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing, to make and approve the final wording of the material amendments to the proposed Submission Havering Local Plan, and to the proposed submission documents for submission to the Secretary of State.

Cabinet endorsed and will make the following recommendations to Council.

That Council:

1.            Agree that the material amendments as set out in section 3.1 of the report, be made to the proposed submission documents, and to the proposed Submission Havering Local Plan

2.            Delegate authority to the Director of Neighbourhoods, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Housing, to make and approve the final wording of the material amendments to the proposed Submission Havering Local Plan, and to the proposed submission documents for submission to the Secretary of State;

Councillor Damian White, Cabinet Member for Housing and Deputy Leader of the Council, presented the report

The report before Members outline progress with the development of the Havering Local Plan since the publication in August and September 2017 (under Regulation 19); and sought to secure Member approval for a number  ...  view the full minutes text for item 34