Luton & South Bedfordshire Joint Planning Committee (JPC)

 

The meeting scheduled for 18th December 2009 was cancelled

This followed the Luton Borough Council decision to withdraw its support for development east of Luton.

 

Meeting scheduled for 29th January 2010

This meeting is expected to consider a revised response from Luton Borough Council to the Core Strategy document in the form that was put out to the public consultation that ended in June 2009.

 

The background to a possible revised response from LBC is reviewed elsewhere on this site: Page: LBC Change of heart

 

No detailed agenda for this meeting has yet been published, but when it is available it will be found here:

 

URL: http://agendas.luton.gov.uk/cmiswebpublic/CommitteeDetails.aspx?committeeID=370

 

There appear to be 3 main options available to the JPC, in the event that Luton Borough Council do withdraw their support for development to the east of Luton “in its current form” : these are shown on the timeline flowchart.

 

It is worth noting that the JPC has taken years and invested huge amounts of money and time in reaching the current versiuon of their Core Strategy.  Some members of the JPC have what appear to be very entrenched views and will  not look kindly upon any significant changes to the Core Strategy as it now exists.

 

Also worth noting is that if  ALL the Luton Borough Council representatives ( 2 Liberal Democrats and 4 Labour ) vote against the development east of Luton then it would take at least 1 of the 6 Central Bedfordshire Conservative members of the JPC to vote against east of  Luton’s inclusion to prevent a stalemate, with  no Chairman’s casting vote allowed.  So far ALL the Central Bedfordshire Conservative JPC members have always voted in favour of the use of the land east of Luton, in North Hertfordshire.