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Local Plan Review Preferred Approach Consultation

Meeting: 14/11/2018 - Cabinet (Item 610)

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The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and the update sheet and the four appendices to the report in the agenda supplement* and to make the following recommendation to the Council:

 

(1)  That the Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach document (attached as appendix 2) and the schedule of proposed changes to the policies map (attached as appendix 3) be approved for an eight-week consultation from 13 December 2018 to 7 February 2019.

 

(2)  That the Director for Planning and the Environment be authorised, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services, to make minor amendments to the consultation documents prior to their publication.

 

*[Note The four appendices in the agenda supplement are not being circulated to Chichester District Council members as they have already received them in the agenda papers for the Development Plan and Infrastructure Panel meeting on Thursday 1 November 2018, which they should bring with them please both to this special meeting of the Cabinet and the ensuing Council meeting on Tuesday 20 November 2018]

Additional documents:

Decision:

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

 

(1)  That the Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach document (attached as appendix 2), as amended in the sixth agenda supplement, and the schedule of proposed changes to the policies map (attached as appendix 3) be approved for an eight-week consultation from 13 December 2018 to 7 February 2019.

 

(2)  That the Director for Planning and the Environment be authorised, following consultation with the Cabinet Member for Planning Services, to make minor amendments to the consultation documents prior to their publication.

 

Minutes:

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its four appendices in the main agenda supplement and the updates detailed in the sixth agenda supplement.

 

This item was presented by Mrs S Taylor (Cabinet Member for Planning Services).

 

In attendance for this matter were Mr A Frost (Director of Planning and Environment), Mr M Allgrove (Planning Policy Manager) and the following members of the CDC Planning Policy team: Ms H Chivers, Mrs V Dobson, Mrs K Dower, Mrs T Flitcroft, Mr T Guymer and Mrs V Owen.

 

Mrs Taylor presented the report as follows. CDC currently had an adopted Local Plan but was committed to reviewing it by July 2020 to ensure that the development needs of the Local Plan area were addressed in accordance with national planning policy. The Local Plan Review would be for 2020 to 2035 and would cover the Chichester District area outside the South Downs National Park (SDNP). Work on the evidence base to inform the Local Plan Review had been ongoing for the past two years. Appendix 4 to the report set out the evidence base already published together with future dates of publication. The Local Plan area’s housing need was based on the government’s current proposed methodology and was capped at an increase of 40% of the figure in the existing Chichester Local Plan (CLP), resulting in a housing need figure of 12,350 new dwellings over the plan period ie 609 dwellings plus 41 dwellings per annum to accommodate the unmet housing need of the SDNP within the CLP area, namely a total of 650 dwellings per annum. The Local Plan Review: Preferred Approach (LPRPA) had two parts. Part one set out some of the key planning issues and challenges together with the preferred spatial strategies to meet the needs of the District. It proposed inter alia specific sites for development. A majority of the planned growth would be in the east-west corridor including Chichester city, with more moderate development for the Manhood Peninsular and in the north of the District. In addition, provision for new employment floor-space was proposed equating to over 230,000 m2 for the plan period. Part two of the LPRPA comprised development management policies, which provided greater detail with respect to, for example, design, heritage, housing mix/tenure and landscape considerations. If approved by the Cabinet and the Council, the LPRPA would be published for consultation for a period of eight weeks from 13 December 2018 to 7 February 2019. The Revised Local Development Scheme (the next agenda item at this special meeting) set out the timetable for taking the LPRPA through to adoption, which self-evidently was very tight. Failure to proceed to consultation on the LPRPA would be likely to result in the extant CLP becoming out-of-date with its serious consequences. The proposed consultation would afford an opportunity for the community to engage in a positive and constructive way to ensure that the development that took place was planned, and not speculative and unplanned with a lack  ...  view the full minutes text for item 610


 

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