Issue - meetings

Members heard again from the Development Management Team Manager regarding the West Burton Solar Project, as detailed in the introduction to the previous report. It was explained that as an Interested Party (IP), the council was invited to submit “Written Representations” (WR). It was recommended that the council accepted the invitation, and provided written representations to the Examination, with the Committee requested to review the draft document and delegate responsibility to the Director of Planning, Regeneration and Communities in consultation with the Chairman of the Prosperous Communities Committee, to complete and submit Written Representations to the examination, having incorporated the feedback of the Committee.

Members of the Committee were once again supportive of the approach, the detail Written Representations, and expressed their thanks for the work that had gone into preparing the documents. Members sought to highlight the timescales that were being proposed for the duration of the project, with a multi-generational impact.

Having been moved, seconded and voted upon, it was unanimously

            RESOLVED that

a)    the invitation to submit Written Representations (WR) to be made on the West Burton Solar Project DCO examination be accepted and approved; and

b)    the draft Written representations (WR) prepared for the West Burton Solar Project examination had been reviewed, and authority be delegated to the Director of Planning, Regeneration and Communities following consultation with the Chairman of the Prosperous Communities Committee, to complete, finalise and submit the WR to the Examination, having taken into consideration the Committee’s comments.