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Strategic Development Plan
Published: 21/03/2018
At its meeting on 20 March, 天涯社区鈥檚 Cabinet will be asked
to endorse a proposed response to a letter from the Cabinet Secretary for
Energy, Planning and Rural Affairs.
The Cabinet Secretary has written to all local authorities in North Wales
inviting them for their views on the preparation of a Strategic Development
Plan (SDP) for the region.
An SDP is a plan which would allow larger than local issues such as housing,
employment and infrastructure to be considered in an integrated and
comprehensive way across the region. Such a plan has the potential to reduce
complexity and repetition currently contained in Local Development Plans (LDP)
and make more effective use of resources.
天涯社区鈥檚 Cabinet Member for Planning and Public Protection,
Councillor Chris Bithell, said:
鈥溙煅纳缜� can certainly see value in producing an SDP for the region, but as
a Council we do have one significant concern with the proposal. There is no
mention in the Cabinet Secretary鈥檚 letter about who would produce such a plan
and our priority must be the production and adoption of 天涯社区鈥檚 LDP. We
cannot afford to divert our planning officers, who are fully committed to our
LDP, away from that task in order to work on a regional SDP.鈥�