Issue - meetings

The Board considered a report of the Executive Director, Environment and Regeneration, on the proposed update to the Local Development Scheme (LDS).  This needed to be submitted to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government by 6 March 2025.  The LDS informed work required to maintain a Local Plan, in line with National Policy.  

Halton’s Local Plan consisted of the adopted Delivery and Allocations Local Plan (2022) and the Joint Waste Plan (2013).  The statutory Local Development Plan was the set of Local Plans that together formed the statutory basis to determine whether or not planning permission should be granted. 

  The LDS underpinned Halton’s Delivery and Allocations Local Plan, which provided a timetable of works to be undertaken in 2025/26.

          Once the LDS had been approved by the Executive Board, it would be made available on the Council’s website.

          RESOLVED: That the Board endorse the draft Local Development Scheme and agree its submission to Executive Board for approval.