THE Vale of Glamorgan Council has finalised its local development plan, the authority’s blueprint for land use over the next 10 years.

It is believed that the plan could create 10,610 more jobs in the Vale, and also aims to reduce the number of people who commute out of the county for work each day.

Following a two-stage consultation process which received 8000 responses, changes have been made to plan which sets out how the council will manage the use of land up until 2026.

The final version of the plan will now be considered by the Council's cabinet on Monday, June 1.

The number of homes for which land has been allocated within it remains at 10,450. On the basis of both responses to the consultation and recent trends in the housing market, the affordable housing targets set out in the plan have been increased from 30 per cent to 35 per cent in the rural south of the Vale (including Rhoose and St. Athan) and from 35 per cent to 40 per cent in the rural east Vale and Penarth.

Affordable housing targets in Barry will remain at 30 per cent.

Council leader Neil Moore said: “The consultation process, coupled with the hard work of our planning officers, has ensured that we are absolutely confident that we now have a local development plan that is not only sound but is the best possible blueprint on which to continue the regeneration of the Vale.”

Councillor Lis Burnett, cabinet member for regeneration, said: “This plan is about building communities, not houses. That is why it focuses on the jobs and infrastructure that sustain communities and the affordable housing that allows local people to set up home in them.

“Our local development plan includes proposals for job creation, maintaining community services and providing new transport infrastructure. This is the blueprint by which we will continue to regenerate all areas of the Vale of Glamorgan.”

The report that has been submitted for the consideration of the Council's cabinet on Monday, June 1 sets out the responses received during the consultation on the plan which took place between 2013 and 2014.

If approved, the report will then progress through the council’s committee system before being presented to a full council meeting on Wednesday, June 24.

If approved at this meeting, the plan will then be submitted to Welsh Government and the Planning Inspectorate for independent examination.

Following completion of the examination, the inspector will issue a report which may recommend further changes to the LDP. Any recommendations will be binding.