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PLYMOUTH PLAN PART ONE

 

 

Meeting: 21/09/2015 - City Council (Item 30)

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Cabinet Member: Councillor Coker

 

The City Council will be asked to formally approve the Plymouth Plan Part One as part of the Council’s Policy Framework.

 

The Cabinet minute and report will also be submitted.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Councillor Coker (Cabinet Member for Strategic Transport and Planning) moved the Cabinet recommendation for approval and indicated that the Plymouth Plan Part One would provide one single strategic plan for the city with one vision and had been developed following an extensive consultation exercise, the results of which had been published as a background paper to the Cabinet report. (Cabinet minute 29 and the Cabinet report were also submitted).   Councillor Coker also acknowledged the cross party work that had been undertaken by the Plymouth Plan Working Group and invited everyone to participate in the development of part two of the plan. 

  

Councillor McDonald seconded the proposal.

 

The Council thanked the communities who had contributed to the plan, Paul Barnard (Assistant Director for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure) and his team and all those in other services who had worked hard on this plan.

 

Agreed to formally approve the Plymouth Plan Part One as part of the Council’s Policy Framework.

 

(The meeting adjourned for a break and reconvened after 30 minutes to consider the remainder of the agenda.)

Meeting: 08/09/2015 - Cabinet (Item 29)

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Anthony Payne (Strategic Director for Place) will submit a report on the Plymouth Plan Part One which comprises the city’s overarching vision, strategic objectives and the thematic and spatial policies of the plan, following community engagement and consultation with scrutiny and the Plymouth Plan Member Working Group.    

 

Cabinet will be asked to recommend it to the City Council for approval as part of the Council’s Policy Framework.

 

Background papers (comments from the consultation the equality impact assessment) can be accessed at the Council’s website Council and Democracy/Councillors and Committees/Library/Cabinet background papers or using the following hyperlink –

http://tinyurl.com/q3d6bmh

Additional documents:

Minutes:

Anthony Payne (Strategic Director for Place) submitted a report seeking approval of the Plymouth Plan Part One which comprised the city’s overarching vision, strategic objectives and the thematic and spatial policies of the plan.  The plan had been the subject of community engagement and consultation with scrutiny and the Plymouth Plan Member Working Group and the comments from the consultation had been included as a background paper together with the equality impact assessment.

 

The report also indicated that the consultation process for part two would commence in September 2015 leading to a consultation draft being published in June 2016 which would also provide an opportunity to refresh and, if needed, to revise the Plymouth Plan Part One.

 

Councillor Coker (Cabinet Member for Strategic Transport and Planning) introduced the proposals and –

 

(a)

paid tribute to Councillor Vincent (who formerly had Cabinet Member responsibility for the Plymouth Plan), the Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Team, councillors and residents for taking part in the development of the plan; 

(b)

indicated that the Council had won a national award from the Royal Town Planning Institute for plan making and had also won the south west regional award;    

(c) 

 referred to the consultation undertaken; 

(d) 

 commended the plan to Cabinet;

(e)

thanked the Plymouth Plan Team and everyone involved in the process.

 

Cabinet Members –

 

(f) 

highlighted that the Health and Wellbeing Strategy had been integrated within the plan;

(g) 

paid tribute to everyone involved in the social enterprise initiative including the social enterprise network and partners;

(h)

highlighted that following the withdrawal of the national target for child poverty by the government and on the recommendation of the Child Poverty Working Group, the policy had been included in the plan and that the Council would continue to measure child poverty.

 

Paul Barnard (Assistant Director for Strategic Planning and Infrastructure), Jonathan Bell (Head of Development Planning), Richard Grant (Local Planning Manager) and Caroline Marr (Policy and Business Planning Officer) attended the meeting for this item and indicated that the development of the plan had been a joint effort across all services within the Council.

 

Jonathan Bell reported that –

 

(i) 

interactive modules for part one of the plan would be launched during the next month;

(j) 

the proposed consultation process for the next phase of the plan would be submitted to the Plymouth Plan Member Working Group shortly.

 

Alternative options considered and reasons for the decision –

 

As set out in the report.

 

Agreed that –

 

(1)

the Plymouth Plan Working Group oversee the delivery of a Plymouth Plan monitoring and implementation framework for the plan, in consultation with key city partnerships;

 

(2)

everyone involved in the plan is congratulated with thanks particularly to the Strategic Planning and Infrastructure Department who are a credit both to the city and the Council and to Hannah Sloggett for her innovative idea of using a sofa as part of the consultation process.