Issue - meetings

Resolved:     That Cabinet note that the Executive Director for Regeneration and Development had taken urgent action to agree and sign a Protocol, countersigned by the portfolio holder for Economic, Development, Regeneration and Town Centres, demonstrating the duty to cooperate between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stafford Borough Council and that this has been submitted to Stafford Borough for inclusion in their Duty to Cooperate Statement to form part of the evidence supporting the Submission version of  ‘The Plan for Stafford Borough’ Examination in Public. 

A report was submitted to advise Members, that on behalf of the Council and with regard to the council’s ‘general instructions’ relating to matters of urgency, the Executive Director for Regeneration and Development and the portfolio holder for Economic Regeneration and Town Centres, had a) agreed and; b) signed a Protocol between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stafford Borough Council, demonstrating the duty to cooperate, pursuant to section 33A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act, 2004, for submission to the Examination in Public of ‘The Plan for Stafford Borough.’ (Stafford Borough’s Core Strategy).

Resolved:     That Cabinet note that the Executive Director for Regeneration and Development had taken urgent action to agree and sign a Protocol, countersigned by the portfolio holder for Economic, Development, Regeneration and Town Centres, demonstrating the duty to cooperate between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council and Stafford Borough Council and that this has been submitted to Stafford Borough for inclusion in their Duty to Cooperate Statement to form part of the evidence supporting the Submission version of  ‘The Plan for Stafford Borough’ Examination in Public.