Duty to Cooperate monitoring

Section 33A of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004, as amended by the Localism Act 2011, introduced a duty to cooperate in relation to the planning of sustainable development.
 
The duty requires Tameside to cooperate with other local planning authorities and other prescribed bodies on strategic matters that cross administrative boundaries. To this extent Tameside are required to engage on an effective and on-going basis to ensure the production of a positively prepared and justified strategy.
 
The Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 require that details of activities undertaken in relation to the duty are recorded and published in a monitoring report.  In accordance with these requirements, this monitoring report provides details of Tameside’s main activities in relation to the duty to cooperate over the period 1 April 2022 to 31 March 2023
 
Duty to Cooperate monitoring report 2022-23