Luton/Dunstable/Houghton Regis and Leighton-Linslade Growth Area Joint Planning and Transportation Committee 15th September 2006
Agenda Item 5
AUTHOR Joint Officer Team (Andy Johnson)
SUBJECT Landowner Consultation
PURPOSE To update the Committee about the outcome of landowner consultation, information generated from it and the proposed way forward
RECOMMENDATION The Joint Committee is recommended to:
1. Note the key findings of the proposals contained in the submissions as summarised in Maps and Tables.
2. Ask the Member Steering Group to ensure that the preparation of the Core Strategy and Growth Area DPDs pay due regard to the key findings stemming from this exercise.
3. Note that all the information emanating from the consultation is now in the public domain
REASON FOR To appraise the Committee about the outcome of RECOMMENDATION landowner consultation and to draw attention to the key findings contained in the submissions received.
1.0 Background
1.1 Members may recall that at the meeting on 13th March 2006, a report on the above subject was considered, when the Committee resolved to delegate the steering of the next stages of the landowner consultation process to the Member Steering Group (MSG). This report presents the findings of the work undertaken in this regard by the MSG, which has culminated with the holding of the final seminar at the end of July.
1.2 The initial stage of the consultation process, as reported on 13th March 2006 resulted in establishing a database of details about the landowners/developers and their sites. From this database, attendees were invited to an “information giving” seminar on 16th March 2006 at which officers introduced the approach to be undertaken. In particular, the officers advised the attendees that the seminars would be ‘open’ seminars at which all landowners/developers would be invited and that the written representations submitted would form a public record of the seminars.
2.0 Approach Taken
2.1 Following this initial seminar, the attendees were invited (copy of letter reproduced in Appendix 1) to present in a series of 3 seminars held in May and June. Each seminar covered a different part of the Growth Area as follows: