Decision details

(Report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)

The report addressed the key points raised at the meeting of the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board on 5 July 2016 and updated documents and arrangements that would form the basis of the Local Plan public consultation due to commence later in September.  In particular, a succinct summary of The Way Forward had been prepared to raise awareness of the Local Plan process and point the reader to the main consultation documents which had also been edited to reflect Members’ comments.

The revised Way Forward document, including a new executive summary and larger scale map of the potential development strategy, together with an “infographic” summarising the key points were presented for approval.  A supplementary report highlighted some further amendments to The Way Forward document.  These documents, together with the Sustainability Appraisal Scoping report and Habitat Regulations Assessment report (considered by the Advisory Board in July), would form the basis of the consultations.

It was agreed that a number of matters raised during discussion be incorporated in the final consultation document including an explanation of Planning by Appeal in section 2.4; a review of the wording of Plan Objective 2 in section 4.5; and provision of an indication of size of potential developable areas in section 5.9.

The Cabinet recorded thanks to the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health, the Planning Policy Manager and his team for all their work on the Local Plan.

The Cabinet resolved that:

(1)             the documents appended to the report form the basis of the Local Plan Regulation 18 public consultations as described in section 1.3 of the report; and

(2)             the amendments appended to the supplementary report be incorporated into “The Way Forward” document together with the adjustments outlined above and any other minor editing alterations identified by the Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health to further improve clarity.