Meeting with SMDC officials
Originally Posted 30th March 2017, author admin
Meeting took place at SMDC offices on Thursday 9th March
Phil Linda and PT met with three Council Officials
Our Liason officer Jo Bagnall
Mark James & another (apologies for not recording this)
We explained
- How the group operated and that it was a committee of the Parish Council and it was subject to standing orders of the council
- Register of interests was published and available at every meeting
- 20 active members
- Meet several times a month
- No sites have been discussed nor will be until all the policies are determined
They strongly supported us in our belief that we needed technical support with our Heritage and Character assessment and Housing Needs Analysis
He also made it clear that we must not compile the policies ourselves as this must be done with someone familiar with planning matters in our case our Consultant from Urban Vision
He (Mark) said that the updated local plan would still have their preferred choice but would be a backstop if our plan failed.
He also asked for confirmation that we would be using site allocations ourselves. we confirmed that this was the policy of the Parish Council.
He would not be able to decide on land from our criteria because his plan might not concur. Therefore there would be a Conflict of interest
Overall there were no negative comments and they said that we had created a clear vision and set of objectives.