STRATEGIC PLANNING JOINT ADVISORY PANEL

Date: 12 November 2002 Item 5

Report by: The Hampshire Director of Environment, Portsmouth City Planning Officer and Southampton Executive Director of Development and Sustainability

LOCAL PLAN PROGRESS AND ISSUES

Written by: Stuart Roberts, tel: 01962 846782

1. Purpose and Summary:

1.1 At its meeting on 25 June 2002 this Panel resolved that each District Council should give a short presentation at the next meeting of the Panel on the current situation with their respective urban capacity studies and major development areas (Minute 3.4 refers).

1.2 The Technical Advisory Panel (TAP) of County, City and District Council officers has considered how this resolution might best be effected. A presentation of only five minutes for each of the 13 local planning authorities would last over an hour, which the TAP felt would be time-consuming and fatiguing. To expedite this item, the TAP asked each local planning authority to prepare a one page position statement for circulation with the agenda for this meeting, enabling Members to ask questions and comment on matters of particular importance. A table showing the planned timetable for the future stages of each new/reviewed Local Plan is attached as Appendix 1, with the position statements as Appendix 2.

1.3 Each local planning authority was asked to cover the following in its position statement.

(i) Adopted Local Plan

- date adopted and end date.

(ii) Review/Replacement Local Plan

- current stage of review/replacement Local Plan.

- date of immediate next stage.

(iii) Housing Land Supply

- urban capacity study - whether completed, whether it found more capacity than the previous one, how robust it is, etc.

- post 1996 housebuilding rate and comparison with Structure Plan baseline requirement.

- land supply for future building and adequacy compared to Structure Plan baseline figure.

- scale and type (brownfield/greenfield) of allocations in draft Local Plan, including reserve sites and major development areas (where applicable).

(iv) Other Significant Topics/Local Plan Proposals/Local Issues

1.4 All local planning authorities have provided position statements, which are attached. Members' questions and comments on these are invited.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the attached position statements be noted.

Section 100 D - Local Government Act 1972 - background papers

The following documents disclose facts or matters on which this report, or an important part of it, is based and has been relied upon to a material extent in the preparation of this report.

NB the list excludes:

1.

Published works.

2.

Documents which disclose exempt or confidential information as defined in the Act.

TITLE

LOCATION

None.