Issue - meetings
Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems
Meeting: 18/11/2014 - Planning and Transportation Advisory Board (Item 32)
32 Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems 
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Additional documents:
Decision:
(Report of Director of Planning, Housing and Environmental Health)
The report advised of a recent consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government and DEFRA on sustainable urban drainage systems and sought endorsement for officer level comments submitted to meet the consultation deadline.
Following consideration by the Planning and Transportation Advisory Board, the Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation resolved that the response to the consultation, set out in Annex 1 to the report, be endorsed.
Minutes:
Decision Notice D140133MEM
The report advised of a recent consultation by the Department for Communities and Local Government and DEFRA on sustainable urban drainage systems and sought endorsement for officer level comments submitted to meet the consultation deadline.
It was reported that whilst the fundamental need for the proposed new approach was welcomed it had to be accompanied by practical mechanisms and funding that ensured systems were properly provided and maintained.
RECOMMENDED: that the response to the consultation, set out in Annex 1 to the report, be endorsed.
[In accordance with Council Procedure Rule 8.5 of the Constitution Councillor M Taylor asked that his vote against the recommendation be recorded. ]