Update on the progress of the Buckinghamshire Local Plan (part 3 of 4)

Specifically raised about grey belt and I'm going to come back to that. At the last committee hearing we were told that the council has retained a King's Council to advise on grey belt policy. Yet since then the High Court has squashed the Hotspur in Beaconsfield's decision for failing to properly apply grey belt policy. And just last week the national government itself has admitted a serious logical error in its grey belt assessment in South Buckinghamshire in neither data centre application. Conceding that the decision should be squashed. Now if the central government cannot get grey belt policy right, what confidence can residents in Buckinghamshire have in this council's methodology? What is our operational definition of grey belt? Who signed off the assessments? And what assurance can you give this committee that our draft and future local plan will not face the same legal challenges that overturned Hotspur's decision? Thank you.

I know this is a topic we've discussed several times and I think it is very, very important.