Issue - meetings

To consider progress with the preparation of the Local Plan and to approve the publication of the Annual Monitoring Report 2011/12.

That approval be given to the publication of the Annual Monitoring Report for 2011/12, to comply with the requirements of Section 35 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by the Localism Act 2011.

The Cabinet Member for Strategic Communities considered the findings contained in the Annual Monitoring Report for 2011/12, including progress with the preparation of the Local Plan, a review of the Local Development Scheme, and how the policies set out in the Development Plan had been delivered in the period 1 April 2011 to 31 March 2012.

It was noted that this was the fourth Monitoring Report for Cheshire East Council but that Government requirements had changed and it was now a matter for each Council to decide upon what to include in the report; in the future the Council intended to monitor on a more focussed list of indicators that linked to either corporate performance measures or key planning policies.

No recommendations were reported from the Strategic Planning Board on 13 March 2013.  The report included an Executive Summary to the Annual Monitoring Report, a full copy of which was available on the Council’s website.

RESOLVED

That approval be given to the publication of the Annual Monitoring Report for 2011/12.