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Consider report by Service Director Regulatory Services.  (Copy attached.)

With reference to paragraph 6 of the Minute of 30 August 2018, there had been circulated copies of a report by the Service Director Regulatory Services providing a note of the representations received during the consultation on the Main Issues Report carried out between November 2018 and January 2019.  The report explained that the Main Issues Report (MIR) was a forerunner to the review of the forthcoming new Local Development Plan (LDP2) which would replace the existing adopted LDP 2016.  In essence the MIR sought public views on a range of key material considerations which the LDP2 must address.  It raised a series of questions for consideration and where possible suggested preferred and alternative approaches for addressing identified issues.  The representations received required further work to be fully scrutinised and they would be taken forward for consideration and responded to as part of the preparation of the proposed LDP2.  It was anticipated the proposed LDP2 would be finalised by the end of 2019 and it was originally envisaged that it would be referred to the Council for approval at that point prior to being sent out for a public consultation.  However, as the proposed Strategic Development Plan 2 (SDP2) had recently been rejected by Scottish Ministers this raised some issues for all SESPlan member authorities as to how their respective Development Plans would be taken forward.  This included issues such as, for example, which strategic housing land requirement figures should be incorporated into Local Development Plans.  The implications of the Ministers’ decision was referred to in more detail within the report and legal advice was being sought as to how LDPs were to be progressed.   Members welcomed the report and paid tribute to the hard work of the officers involved in the process.

DECISION

AGREED to note the Summary of Consultation Responses submitted to the Main Issues Report as set out in the Appendix to the report.