Agenda item

The Cabinet considered a report of the Corporate Director, Neighbourhood Services, which sought agreement of the Pre-Submission Draft of the County Durham Plan for publication and consultation and to agree the timetable through to adoption (for copy see file of minutes).

The Report set out the content of the Pre-Submission with particular emphasis on the key changes made following consultation on the Preferred Options in the previous year. Following a final round of consultation in the Autumn the Plan would be submitted to the Secretary of State for independent examination by a Planning Inspector in March 2014. The Examination in Public would then follow in summer 2014. The Community Infrastructure Levy Draft Charging Schedule would be reported to the Cabinet in October and be consulted on alongside the Plan.

Cabinet was also asked approve for consultation a number of Supplementary Planning Documents that accompany the Plan and to endorse the updated evidence base, including the Sustainability Appraisal and Habitat Regulations Assessment, underpinning it.

RESOLVED

That the recommendations contained in the report be approved.