Decision details

To approve the revised version of the Local Development Scheme (February 2014) to take effect from 28 February 2014.

The Local Development Scheme (LDS) is a programme management tool that sets out timetables for the preparation of Local Plan documents.  It will update and replace the existing Local Development Scheme, which came into effect on 1st March 2012.

The LDS provides a brief description of the Local Plan documents that Fareham Borough Council is preparing, together with information about their content and the geographic area which they will cover. It explains how the different planning documents are related to each other.

RESOLVED that the Executive:

(a)       approves the revised Local Development scheme, as set out in Appendix A to the report;

(b)       authorises the Director of Planning and Environment, in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning and Development, to make any necessary minor typographical amendments to the document;

(c)       agrees that the revised Local Development Scheme shall take effect from 28 February 2014; and

(d)       makes a commitment to an early review of the Fareham Local Plan following a review of the South Hampshire Strategy.