The Executive Director for Economic Growth and Neighbourhood Services submitted a report on the adoption of a new Reading Borough Local Plan.  Appendix 1 to the report listed the replacement of policies in previous development plan documents.

The Council had been working on the production of a new comprehensive Local Plan for Reading, to set out policies and proposals up to 2036, and the Local Plan had been adopted at Council on 4 November 2019.  The Local Plan would therefore be the main consideration for planning applications determined from that date, and the existing development plans would cease to apply: the Core Strategy (adopted 2008 and amended 2015); Reading Central Area Action Plan (adopted 2009) and the Sites and Detailed Policies Document (adopted 2012, amended 2015). 

The report summarised the implications of this for decision-making and Appendix 1 listed the policies from the previous development plan documents and identified if and how that policy had been replaced in the new Local Plan.  It explained that, where a policy was listed as a replacement, it meant that it covered the same issue, but did not necessarily mean that it had the same approach.

Resolved -    That the adoption of the Reading Borough Local Plan and the replacement of the existing Development Plan Documents be noted.