Issue - meetings
Response to the Draft Sustainable Community Strategy for Worcestershire 2008-2013
Meeting: 06/02/2008 - Cabinet (Item 138)
Additional documents:
- App 1 SCS DRAFT 6 - final version for consultation 221107, item 138
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- App 2 BDC SCS Response 090108, item 138
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Minutes:
The Cabinet considered the Council's response to the draft Sustainable Community Strategy for Worcestershire 2008-2013.
RECOMMENDED that the response to the draft Sustainable Community Strategy for Worcestershire 2008-2013, as detailed in both the report and Appendix 2 to the report and with particular focus on: geographic focus around Bromsgrove town centre, Longbridge and the Bromsgrove railway station relocation; community cohesion; children and young people; and older people, be approved for submission to the Worcestershire Partnership, subject to the following changes:
(a) Question 7 - Threats of the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analysis - Affordable housing: insertion of the gross figure of 2,100 houses to be built on Bromsgrove over the next 20 years, rather than the nett figure of 1,400 houses; and
(b) Question 16 - Opportunities - Longbridge regeneration: insertion of a reference to the Technology Belt.