Decision Taken By: CABINET MEMBER FOR Planning and Transportation
Decision No: D070055MEM
Date: 26th February 2007
Decision(s) and Reason(s)
Proposed Planning Policy Statement: Planning and Climate Change
Minutes
Details were given of a Government consultation on a draft supplement to Planning Policy Statement 1 (PPS1) entitled 'Planning and Climate Change'. The report summarised the main issues identified in the draft PPS and the key implications and sought endorsement of a draft response to the questions posed in the consultation.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that the Council:
1) welcomes the content of the Planning Policy Statement in principle;
2) expresses disappointment that the Practice Guidance was not published alongside the draft PPS because understanding the practicality of some of the measures is dependent upon the detail which is not yet available;
3) endorses the detailed response to consultation set out in Annex A to the report; and
4) makes the overriding point that it is vital for the success of the proposals in the PPS and the confidence of the public in them that they be clearly coordinated and coherent in relation to other government initiatives.
Reasons: As set out in the report submitted to the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board of 26 February 2007.
Signed M Balfour (Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation)
Signed Leader: M Worrall
Signed Chief Executive: D Hughes
Date of Publication: 02 March 2007
This decision will come into force and may then be implemented on the expiry of 5 working days after publication unless it is called in.