Agenda and minutes

To provide an opportunity for Members and Officers to declare any personal and/or prejudicial interests in any item on the agenda.

There were no declarations of interest.

In accordance with Procedure Rules Nos.11 and 35 a period of 10 minutes is allocated for members of the public to address the meeting on any matter relevant to the work of the meeting. Individual members of the public may speak for up to 5 minutes but the Chairman or person presiding will decide how the period of time allocated for public speaking will be apportioned where there are a number of speakers. Members of the public are not required to give notice to use this facility. However, as a matter of courtesy, a period of 24 hours’ notice is encouraged.

Members of the public wishing to ask a question at the meeting should provide at least three clear working days’ notice in writing and should include the question with that notice. This will enable an informed answer to be given.

To determine the award of Community Grants to Voluntary and Community Organisations which meet the criteria approved by Cheshire East Council.

The Cabinet Member considered a series of applications for community grants in line with the Council’s Policy for the Allocation of Community Grants. Each grant application was outlined in the report, together with the reason for the recommendation in respect of that application.

All of the proposed grants could be funded from within existing budgets approved as part of the Council’s Budget for 2012/13.   

RESOLVED

That the Community Grants listed in the Appendix to the report be awarded, declined or deferred as indicated.

To seek approval for the Local Development Scheme 2012 - 2014.

The Local Development Scheme set out a programme and timetable for the preparation of documents for the Cheshire East Local Plan. The  previous Cheshire East Local Development Scheme had been approved in January 2011.

At its meeting on 5^th March 2012 Cabinet had considered a report on options for a revised programme for preparing the Local Plan as it was evident that the Council would not be in a position to commence consultations on the Preferred Options stage of both the Core Strategy and Site Allocation documents in May 2012 as scheduled in the  2010 – 14 Local Development Scheme.

Having considered the options, Cabinet had agreed that a revised programme for the Core Strategy and Site Allocations documents would be appropriate  with the effect that both documents would go direct to the Final Submission Plan stage rather than having two formal stages of consultation. This would allow adoption of the Core Strategy by the end of 2013 and the adoption of the Site Allocations document by the end of 2014 in accordance with the current Local Development Scheme timetable. That streamlined  programme was therefore reflected in the revised Local Development Scheme 2012 -14.

In respect of the Site Allocations document, Cabinet had agreed to consider measures and resources that would enable a ‘two stage’ timetable to be achieved. This would be effected in a further revision of the Local Development Scheme in due course.

RESOLVED

That the Local Development Scheme 2012- 2014 be approved.