The report of the Strategic Director – Regeneration and Environment seeks approval for the publication of the Council’s statutory Monitoring Report, which reports on the impact of land use planning policies and the preparation of local plans and other planning documents during 2013/14. It also advises that copies of the Monitoring Report must be made available for public inspection on the Council’s website by the end of December 2014.

The report also recommends that Council is recommended to approve the revisions to the future timetable for the preparation of the Core Strategy Local Plan, set out in the revised Local Development Scheme attached to the report.