Issue - meetings

**At its 26 November 2024 meeting, Overview & Scrutiny Committee resolved to adjourn consideration of this item. The Committee is reconvening to consider this item**

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee considered a report of the Assistant Director Planning and Development on the draft proposed Cherwell Local Plan 2042 at its extraordinary meeting on 12 November 2024.

At the meeting, the Committee requested that the following supporting documents be submitted to this meeting for consideration prior to submission to Executive on 2 December 2024.

a1)      Draft Sustainability Appraisal Non-technical Summary

a2)      Draft Sustainability Appraisal WIP

b)         Draft WIP Habitats Regulation Assessment

c)         the Health and Equalities Impact Assessment

d)         Interim Duty to Cooperate Statement

e)         Local Plan Appendix 4 - Strategic Gaps associated with Banbury, Bicester and Heyford Park: Key Characteristics and Recommendations 

The draft versions of these documents were published as Exempt papers with the original agenda publication, for the reasons set out on that agenda, but having been subsequently finalised and made available for publication. They were published with a Supplementary Note: Summary of Changes to the O&S Supplementary Documents on Monday 25 November.

Recommendations

The Overview and Scrutiny Committee resolves:

 1.1        To review the Local Plan supplementary documents and identify any comments for consideration by the Executive when it considers the Local Plan, currently scheduled for 2 December 2024 but Local Plan consideration to be adjourned until after Overview and Scrutiny Committee meet.