• County Development Plan workshop to discuss solutions to critical issues raised by elected members
  • Attended the full council meeting to debate the draft County Development Plan 2022-2028. I was very happy, after many many meetings and some very robust debate with senior members of the forward planning section, to propose the approval of our draft county development plan to go on public display from Dec 10th. I don’t like all of it, but I like a lot of it.. Its important to say that while I’m happy to have it sent out to public consultation I’m not endorsing everything in it…We have been handcuffed in many areas by government strategic policy, and our forward planners have had to thread the way through the pathway we as councillors want our county to take, and the legal restrictions placed on us by national policy.