Issue - meetings

The Working Party considered a report which summarised the findings of a study prepared by Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners (NLP). The study, which had been commissioned by Government Office West Midlands (GOWM), had been prepared in response to concerns expressed by central government that the submitted preferred option Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) review did not deliver the required amounts of housing as reported by the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit.

It was reported that GOWM would be using the findings of the study as a basis of their response to the RSS revision. The results of the study were not formal policy or proposals but solely independent evidence, setting out alternative choices for how the region might deliver additional housing to inform the Examination in Public on the Phase 2 RSS revision.

It was intended that this Authority’s submissions on the RSS preferred option and possibly a separate submission on the NLP study would be submitted for approval by Members in accordance with the deadline for submission to the West Midlands Regional Assembly by 8th December 2008.

RESOLVED  that the report be noted.