Issue - meetings

Executive Member for Planning presented the options for future joint strategic planning arrangements with East Devon, Exeter and Mid Devon Councils and to recommend a preferred approach to Full Council. He advised Members of the Council’s obligation of the duty to co-operate and that the preferred option was a non-statutory joint strategy and infrastructure plan.

In response to a Member, the Principal Policy Planner clarified that while Dartmoor National Park was not a formal partner, the district did engage with the authority wherever possible. Work would continue with Homes England to ensure there was joint working with the authorities and Homes England to help to secure any possible future infrastructure funding. 

RECOMMENDED to Full Council that:-

(1)          It formally withdraws from the preparation of the Greater Exeter Strategic Plan; and

(2)              It supports in principle the production of a joint non-statutory plan, to include joint strategy and infrastructure matters, with East Devon, Exeter and Mid-Devon Councils, and in partnership with Devon County Council. This will be subject to agreement of details of the scope of the plan, a timetable for its production, the resources required, and governance arrangements to be agreed at a later date.

(The vote was unanimous)