Issue - meetings

Update on larger development sites

Meeting: 28/10/2021 - Local Plan Leadership Group (Item 6)

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To note the update on discussions with the landowners and promoters of the larger development sites.

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Minutes:

The Local Plans and New Communities Manager provided an update to the Group on the discussions with the landowners and promoters of the larger development sites. Following the “Call for Sites” process in April this year, sixteen larger development sites, and clusters of sites to form larger development options, had been identified. Officers had now held meeting with 49 groups’ representatives for all of these sites and landowners and they had been given copies of a Model Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which set out the ‘ground rules’ for proceeding, should the Council decide to allocate a particular site in the local plan. He said that 22 of the 49 groups had agreed in principle to sign up to the MOU. 2 groups had indicated that they were not prepared to sign.

 

The Local Plans and New Communities Manager said that all sites would be assessed on their merits.

 

The Chair said that the fact that a MOU had not been signed would form part of the assessment.

 

The Group noted the update.