Event description
This event will provide an opportunity for members to learn more about how the council is taking forward its new Local Plan.
Officers will present how our new Local Plan is addressing the challenges of: meeting all our communities housing and jobs needs, maintaining a 5 year housing land supply, ensuring we make effective use of brown field land, regeneration opportunities, achieve the necessary infrastructure to support new development, helping to meet the council’s climate change emergency and nature recovery objectives through supporting renewable energy and green infrastructure delivery, and the new spatial planning policies needed to be deliver the council’s objectives for sustainable development.
Officers will also seek to explain how we are preparing the new Local Plan in the context of the Government’s new Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill and requirements to support cross boundary strategic City Region planning.