Issue - meetings

(a)       That the Cabinet ratify and enter into the Planning Concordat

(b)       That the portfolio holders for Planning and Assets and Economic Regeneration, Business and Town Centres be authorised to agree on behalf of the Council actions with respect to their portfolios which the Council will take to deliver its contribution to the Planning Concordat, and that such agreed actions be reported to the Planning Committee

(c)        That Cabinet, and the Planning Committee, receives a further report after the first annual review of actions and outcomes envisaged by the Planning Concordat

A report was submitted to inform Cabinet about the ‘Planning Concordat’ prepared by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) which aimed to ensure that planning authorities were playing their part in promoting the LEP’s growth agenda, and to provide Cabinet with the opportunity to decide whether or not to ratify and participate in the Concordat.

The aim of the concordat was improve the effectiveness of the planning system and to demonstrate that it was designed and operated to promote and support appropriate development.

Resolved:

(a)       That the Cabinet ratify and enter into the Planning Concordat

(b)       That the portfolio holders for Planning and Assets and Economic Regeneration, Business and Town Centres be authorised to agree on behalf of the Council actions with respect to their portfolios which the Council will take to deliver its contribution to the Planning Concordat, and that such agreed actions be reported to the Planning Committee

(c)        That Cabinet, and the Planning Committee, receives a further report after the first annual review of actions and outcomes envisaged by the Planning Concordat