Agenda item

Report of the Strategic Director of Regeneration and Environment

Recommendations:-

1.    That Cabinet recommend to Council that the revised Local Development Scheme be adopted with effect from 23 January 2020.

Consideration was given to a report which outlined a revised Local Development Scheme and the timescale for progressing a partial update of the Local Plan Core Strategy, which had been approved by the Council on 8 July 2019. It was reported that The Local Development Scheme (LDS) set out a project plan for the preparation, adoption and review of Rotherham Local Plan documents.

It was reported that approval of the LDS was necessary in order to comply with planning legislation, to enable the progress of the Core Strategy Partial Update and to ensure that an up-to-date planning policy framework was in place for the Borough’s future growth and development

Resolved:-

That Council be recommended to adopt the revised Local Development Scheme with effect from 23 January 2020.