Issue - meetings

The Working Party considered a report on the findings of the Redditch Growth Study undertaken by external planning consultants to provide an independent strategic and technical assessment for the four commissioning authorities of the implications for potential future growth within and adjoining Redditch Borough over the period to 2026.

Members were informed that since the original Study had been drafted, the Regional Assembly had agreed that as part of the Regional Spatial Strategy Phase 2 Preferred Option, the level of growth for Redditch should be 6600 dwellings, with 3300 to be provided within Redditch Borough and the balance to be provided in the neighbouring districts of Bromsgrove and/or Stratford-upon-Avon. The planning consultants had therefore been requested to produce a short Addendum to their Study and the report set out the principal findings thereof.

During the discussion reference was made to the question of boundaries and officers undertook to establish when the next review was due to be undertaken by the Boundary Commission.

RESOLVED  that the contents of the report be noted.