The Development Strategy will set out the broad approach to new development across Central Bedfordshire to 2031, including new housing and employment targets and new large-scale development sites. The Executive will be requested to consider and recommend to Council the Central Bedfordshire Development Strategy for the purposes of Publication and subsequent Submission to the Secretary of State.

RECOMMENDED to Council

1.      That the draft Pre-Submission Development Strategy, attached at Appendix A to the report, be approved for the purposes of Publication and Submission to the Secretary of State.

2.      To delegate authority to the Director of Sustainable Communities, in consultation with the Executive Member for Sustainable Communities – Strategic Planning and Economic Development, to make any minor amendments to the Development Strategy, including any saved policies from the adopted North Core Strategy:

         (i)           prior to Publication;

         (ii)          after Publication but before Submission; and

         (iii)         during the Examination Process.