Agenda and minutes

No declarations of interest were made.

RESOLVED

that the minutes of the meeting of the Committee held on 2 September 2024, be received and approved as a correct record.

Committee received a presentation outlining potential options for the Local Plan, in response to the Inspectors’ interim findings letter and to address the housing supply for the entire Plan period.

In the first instance, the Council had responded to the Inspectors’ letter setting out its intention to undertake immediate work in identifying further sites of less than 500 dwellings, in accordance with the submitted plan’s spatial strategy.  Having considered all the other options available, Members concurred with this course of action and proceeded to consider the following additional sites:

·       H1Kl, Central Avenue, Kirkby – 16 homes

·       H1Km, Abbey Road, Kirkby – 38 homes

·       H1Kn, Southwell Lane, Kirkby – 60 homes

·       H1Ko, Former Kirkland’s Care Home, Fairhaven, Kirkby – 20 homes

·       H1Kp, Pond Hole, Kirkby – 54 homes

·       H1Kq, Former Wyvern Club site, Lane End, Kirkby – 12 homes

·       H1Kr, Ellis Street, Kirkby – 24 homes

·       H1Sai, Pendean Way – 12 homes

·       H1Saj, Between Redcliffe Street & Leyton Avenue, Sutton - 18 homes

·       H1Sak, Rookery Lane, Sutton - 78 homes

·       H1Sal, Newark Road/Coxmoor Road - 300 homes

·       H1Sam, Land north of Fackley Road (Phase 2) Teversal - 133 homes

·       H1San, Beck Lane South, Skegby - 106 homes

·       H1Sao, Radford's Farm, Dawgates Lane, Skegby – 90 homes.

AGREED

that the ‘additional sites’ option be endorsed as a suitable way forward and Cabinet be recommended to approve the sites and the public consultation exercise, as outlined in the report.

Members were presented with the revised Ashfield Local Development Scheme which detailed the Council's programme for the production of the Ashfield Local Plan (2023 – 2040).

AGREED

that Cabinet be recommended to approve the Revised Ashfield Local Development Scheme, as set out at Appendix 1 to the report, to come into effect on 17 February 2025.