Issue - meetings

The Executive Board considered a report regarding the potential for a Local Development Order to be made within Cross Hands East.

The report detailed that Cross Hands East Strategic Employment Site is a regionally significant employment location in Carmarthenshire and an important part of the Cross Hands Growth Zone.  Providing 19 acres of developable land, development of this scale would create in the region of 1,000 new jobs. Demand for industrial and business space in Cross Hands and the County is high with occupancy rates in the Council’s Industrial portfolio consistently over 90%.

It was noted that a LDO provided a Local Planning Authority with an opportunity to streamline the planning process by removing the need for developers/applicants to make a planning application to the Authority and for development proposals to be submitted as an LDO application, allowing an authority to act proactively in response to locally specific circumstances within its geographical area.

UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED that the proposed Local Development Order be considered through the democratic reporting process.