Issue - meetings

The Council was informed that the Executive Board, at its meeting held on the 31^st July, 2017 (Minute 10 refers) had received the Annual Monitoring Report 2016/17 on the Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan. It was noted that the report, which had been prepared in accordance with the provisions of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2014 and the Local Government Development Plan (LDP) Regulations 2005, was required to be submitted to the Welsh Government by the 31st October, 2017. The Council was advised that if it were to endorse the Executive Board’s recommendations, which included for a review to be undertaken of the LDP, the first meeting of the Local Development Plan Advisory group would be held on the 9th November

References were made to individual aspects of the report particularly the Welsh Language and the potential adverse impact the existence of the Llyn Brianne Dam could be having on the development potential of Llandovery. The Council was advised that as the current report was purely a factual monitoring report on the LDP’s implementation, the above issues would need to be raised as part of the LDP review process.

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED that the following recommendation of the Executive Board be adopted:

“To receive and accept the content of the second Annual Monitoring Report for the Carmarthenshire Local Development Plan – as required for submission to the Welsh Government by 31^st October 2017;

To commence the early full or partial review of the Carmarthenshire LDP:

-        To consider and to address the shortfall in available housing land supply and consider the interventions necessary.

-        To prepare further evidence on the implications and veracity of the 2014 sub-national Household and Population projections and consider them in light of the review.

-        To consider the distribution and delivery of housing and the success or otherwise of the strategy, or its components in meeting the identified housing requirements;

To produce a review report setting out and explaining the extent of any changes required to the Plan;

Grant officers delegated authority to make typographical or factual amendments as necessary to improve the clarity and accuracy of the AMR”.