The “More Rochford” blog profiles the meeting as follows:
Tucked away in the meetings and agendas schedule for Rochford Council is the unexcitingly titled “Local Development Framework Sub-Committee”. The meeting will take place on Wednesday, 21st March 2012 at 7.30pm at The Civic Suite in Hockley Road, Rayleigh. The public are welcome to attend but, given the lack of publicity, I doubt many will.
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The meeting is to discuss options for an early review of the core strategy – the development plan for the local area for the next 15 years. The same core strategy that was signed off by a Government Inspector in December 2011 and which should have protected the Council against rogue housing development schemes. It was supposed to give control to local planning officials regarding where housing will be located (including the highly controversial Hall Road 600 house “scheme”).
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However, what many people probably didn’t realise, due to the delay in getting the core strategy finalised (due largely to Government bungling) it was already out of date by the time it was signed off. Accordingly, the Council has had to commit to an early review of its development plan to ensure it is still relevant and can, amongst other things, meet housing targets for the next 15 years.
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One of the options on the table is to effectively start again with the core strategy. This would mean that areas that people thought would be protected against development would, again, have uncertainty as a new 4 year process reviewed everything that had previously been reviewed over the past 4 years! ….
You can find the agenda for the meeting here
The sub-committee consists of 5 Conservatives and 1 Lib Dem (Chris Black)