Local Plan/ Master Plan

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Dear Wakefield City Council,
Please can you provide details of the meeting and attendance for the approval of the Local Plan/Master Plan for Wakefield and surrounding areas under the control of the Wakefield council and also if other agencies were represented at this meeting.
Please provide details of which elected members were present and involved including parish councillors.
Also where were public consultations advertised and situated.
Thank you
Clare O'Keefe

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freedomofinformation, Wakefield City Council

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Dear Ms O’Keefe,

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information

I am writing in respect of your recent enquiry for information held by the
Authority under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act.

Please find the response to your request below.

We have assumed that your request is regarding the Wakefield District
Local Plan (WDLP) which the Council is currently preparing. Upon adoption
by the Council, the WDLP will become the district’s statutory development
plan. Below is set out the approval process that has governed the
preparation of the WDLP and details of the consultations that have
occurred as it has been prepared, together with some information about the
Public Examination of the plan that is currently underway. The decision to
prepare a local plan is taken by Council Members, based on recommendations
from Officers. Other stakeholders, including Parish Councillors, are not
involved in this decision. However, many external stakeholders, including
parish councils, have been consulted formally as the plan was being
prepared at the consultation stages set out below, and have also been
involved in the examination of the WDLP.

 

WDLP Approval Process

 

The Council has to prepare and keep up to date Local Plans in order to
guide and manage development across the district (See the [1]National
Planning Policy Framework, particularly section 3). Their preparation has
to be approved by the Council’s Cabinet and, for some stages, at Full
Council.

 

The Council adopted a [2]Local Development Scheme (LDS) setting out its
intention to produce the Wakefield District Local Plan in July 2017. The
LDS was approved at Cabinet on 27 ^ June 2017. The Members who attend this
meeting are listed on [3]this link. The LDS was item 5 on [4]the agenda
and minutes, where the report can be viewed. Full Council approved the
adoption of the LDS on 26 July 2017. The Members who attended this meeting
are listed on [5]this link. The LDS was item 29 on [6]the agenda and
minutes, where the report can be viewed.

 

Cabinet approved the publication and submission for examination of the
WDLP on 8 October 2019. The Members who attended this meeting are listed
on [7]this link. The WDLP was item 39 on [8]the agenda and minutes, where
the report can be viewed. Full Council approved the publication and
submission for examination of the WDLP on 16 October 2019. The Members who
attended this meeting are listed on [9]this link. The WDLP was item 69 on
[10]the agenda and minutes, where the report can be viewed.

 

Cabinet approved the significant changes to the WDLP required by the
Government appointed Planning Inspector examining the plan (known as Main
Modifications) on 21 March 2023. The Members who attended this meeting are
listed on [11]this link. The WDLP was item 112 on [12]the agenda and
minutes.

 

Additionally, the cabinet reports set out above, and more detailed
decisions about aspects of the WDLP and its preparation, were discussed
and approved at the Local Plan Sounding Board and the minutes for these
meetings are attached to this response.

 

Consultations as The Wakefield District Local Plan was being Prepared

 

Consultation activity that has to be undertaken as planning policy
documents are being prepared is set out in the adopted [13]Statement of
Community Involvement and its [14]Covid Addendum (which applied to the
publication consultation only). For the consultations set out below, the
requirements of the Statement of Community Involvement were met and this
has been considered by the Planning Inspector currently examining the
WDLP:

 

Early Engagement – Thursday 26 October to 6 December 2017.

Initial Draft – Thursday 10 January to Wednesday 20 February 2019.

Publication - Thursday 29 October 2020 to Thursday 31 December 2020.

 

Details of the Local Plan consultation documents are available on
[15]this webpage. Responses to the consultation can be viewed on the
Council’s [16]consultation website and in the [17]Initial Statement of
Consultation (setting out consultation activity and responses at the early
engagement stage), the [18]Pre-Submission Statement of Consultation and
[19]appendices (setting out consultation activity and responses at the
initial draft stage) and the [20]Submission Statement of Consultation &
Appendices (setting out consultation activity and responses at the
publication stage).

 

Examination

 

After the preparation process set out above, the WDLP was submitted for
examination by a Government-appointed Planning Inspector, as required by
law, on 4 May 2021. Information about the examination is set out on
[21]the examination webpages. A series of hearing sessions were held
between November 2021 and January 2023. The Council received a [22]post
hearing letter from the Inspector in March 2023 and are now preparing for
a consultation on main modifications to the plan the Inspector requires,
to ensure that it is sound and legally compliant and capable of adoption.
The Council anticipates that the adoption version of the plan may be
considered for adoption by Cabinet and Full Council in the Autumn of 2023.
If Full Council resolves to adopt the WDLP, it will become the Council’s
statutory development plan.

 

I trust that this information is satisfactory for your purposes.

Yours sincerely

 

Senior Information Governance Officer

Information Governance Team

Legal and Governance

Wakefield Council

Tel: 01924 306112

E-mail: [23][Wakefield City Council request email]

 

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