To respond to the consultation on the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy – Options for Phase Three Revision.

The Cabinet Member Environment and Strategic Housing presented the report to the consultation on the West Midlands Regional Spatial Strategy and referred Cabinet to paragraph 11 and the issues raised at the stakeholder event held at the Courtyard theatre.  In particular he referred to the critical rural services and option 1 which implied that only the market towns and larger villages would be supported, which had populations in excess of 10,000 and which would have excluded Herefordshire towns.  However, he stated this element had been reconsidered and advised that both Leominster and Ross-on-Wye would be recognised and therefore recommended the report to Cabinet.

RESOLVED That: the responses to the consultation questions posed in the Phase Three Options document as set out in the appendices to this report be approved.