Issue - meetings

To submit the report of the Head of Service (Regulation).

RESOLVED to confirm that any amendments to the Council’s policy for Onshore Wind Energy proposals are considered as part of the process of preparing the Local Development Plan.

Submitted – The report of the Head of Regeneration on the use of Supplementary Planning Guidance on Onshore Wind Energy in planning decisions.

Councillor John Griffith referred to the decisions/four amendments taken by the Council on 24^th January, 2013, in this respect.  Waiting for the LDP to take effect in mid 2014 would not alleviate the concerns in the meantime.  He considered that the Executive could recommend the SPG guidelines as part of the process for considering the LDP and ask them as well to take action so that the separation distances are accepted officially.

It was proposed and seconded by Councillor H Eifion Jones and A Morris Jones, that the four amendments agreed by Council on the 24^th January, 2013, should go out to full public consultation for a period of 6 weeks.  The responses received would strengthen the SPG and LDP process.

The Portfolio Holder mentioned that the Monitoring Officer at that Council meeting had advised against making any amendments to the draft SPG which could leave it, or decisions made under it, open to legal challenge which the Council could not defend on appeal.

The amendment was not carried.

RESOLVED to confirm that any amendments to the Council’s policy for Onshore Wind Energy proposals are considered as part of the process of preparing the Local Development Plan.