Issue - meetings

To consider a report of the Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration clarifying the decision making route within this authority for the stages of preparation for the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan; providing further detail andclarity pertinent to the Scheme of Delegation within the Council’s Constitution.

The Cabinet had before it a report* of the Head of Planning, Economy and Regeneration clarifying the decision making route within this authority for the  stages of preparation for the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan; providing further detail andclarity pertinent to the Scheme of Delegation within the Council’s Constitution.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Regeneration outlined the contents of the report stating the report sought approval for the decision making route for the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan by this Council. It did not affect the previously agreed decision making route for Local Plans (as approved by the Cabinet in December 2016). Each of the three Greater Exeter Councils had their own decision making routes which were not the subject of this report.

The decision making route made it clear that Council approval would be needed for the submission and also the adoption of the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan. He also confirmed that separate meetings of the Cabinet would not be needed in Tiverton, Cullompton and Crediton unless the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan included strategic allocations in that specific town.

RESOLVED that the decision making route for the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan as set out in the table in Appendix 1 be approved.

(Proposed by Cllr R J Chesterton and seconded by Cllr C R Slade)

Note:  *Report previously circulated, copy attached to minutes.