Issue - meetings

(i)            That Cabinet note that the Executive Director for Regeneration and Development has taken urgent action to agree and sign a Statement of Common Ground, countersigned by the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, with Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, Stoke on Trent City Council and Stafford Borough Council.

(ii)           That Cabinet note that the Statement of Common Ground has been submitted to SMDC for inclusion in their Duty to Cooperate Statement to form part of the evidence supporting the Submission version of the Staffordshire Moorlands Core Strategy Review at its Examination in Public.

A report was submitted to Cabinet advising Members that a Statement of Common Ground had been agreed and signed, demonstrating a Duty to Cooperate.

Members were advised that this had been at the request of Staffordshire Moorlands District Council.  Attention was drawn to paragraph 1.3 of the report.

Resolved:       (i)         That Cabinet note that the Executive Director for Regeneration

and Development has taken urgent action to agree and sign a Statement of Common Ground, countersigned by the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, with Staffordshire Moorlands District Council, Stoke on Trent City Council and Stafford Borough Council.

(ii)        That Cabinet note that the Statement of Common Ground has

been submitted to SMDC for inclusion in their Duty to Cooperate Statement to form part of the evidence supporting the Submission version of the Staffordshire Moorlands Core Strategy Review at its Examination in Public.