Issue - meetings

The material relevant to this item is the report on pages 19 to 21 of the agenda and 1 to 107 of the (main) agenda supplement considered by the Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday 8 January 2019.

The following recommendation was made by the Cabinet to the Council:

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

That the submitted Local Plan Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029, amended to include all the main modifications recommended by the planning inspector to make the Plan sound, together with other more minor modifications already agreed with the inspector, be adopted and published (including any consequential and other appropriate minor amendments) in accordance with regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

The Council considered the recommendation made to it by the Cabinet at its meeting on Tuesday 8 January 2019, as set out in pages 19 to 21 of the agenda report and pages 1 to 107 of the agenda supplement for that meeting.  

Mrs S Taylor (Cabinet Member for Planning Services) formally moved the Cabinet’s recommendation and this was seconded by Mr A Dignum (Leader of the Council and Cabinet Member for Growth and Place).

In presenting the Cabinet’s recommendation Mrs Taylor said that the main purpose of the Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029 (SA DPD) (appendix 1) was to deliver non-strategic residential and employment sites as set out in the Chichester Local Plan: Key Policies 2014-2029 (CLP) adopted in July 2015 and provide guidance for the development of those sites. Once adopted it would form part of CDC’s Development Plan. Housing sites included in the SA DPD related only to those parishes which either did not have an adopted neighbourhood development plan (NDP) or which had a NDP that had not reached pre-submission stage by April 2017. The SA DPD also (a) reviewed settlement boundaries and, where appropriate, recommended changes thereto and (b) identified (in accordance with the CLP) a local centre for East Wittering. The SA DPD had been submitted to a rigorous process including a number of formal consultations, culminating in an examination by a planning inspector. The SA DPD was pronounced to be sound in the inspector’s report (appendix 2) subject to the inclusion of the main modifications recommended by and more minor modifications agreed with the inspector (appendix 3). The SA DPD related to the CLP and not the emerging Chichester Local Plan Review.

The Chairman pointed out that since the Council was not in a position to amend the SA DPD members would proceed immediately to a vote.

Decision

On a show of hands the members voted in favour of the Cabinet’s recommendation with no votes against and no abstentions. 

RESOLVED

That the submitted Local Plan Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029, amended to include all the main modifications recommended by the planning inspector to make the Plan sound, together with other more minor modifications already agreed with the inspector, be adopted and published (including any consequential and other appropriate minor amendments) in accordance with regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

The Cabinet is requested to consider the agenda report and its three appendices in the agenda supplement and to make the following recommendation to the Council:

That the submitted Local Plan Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029, amended to include all the main modifications recommended by the planning inspector to make the Plan sound, together with other more minor modifications already agreed with the inspector, be adopted and published (including any consequential and other appropriate minor amendments) in accordance with regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

That the submitted Local Plan Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029, amended to include all the main modifications recommended by the planning inspector to make the Plan sound, together with other more minor modifications already agreed with the inspector, be adopted and published (including any consequential and other appropriate minor amendments) in accordance with regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.

The Cabinet received and considered the agenda report and its nine appendices in the main agenda supplement.

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

Mrs T Flitcroft (Principal Planning Officer (Local Planning)) and Mr M Allgrove (Planning Policy Manager) were attendance for this matter.

Mrs Taylor said that the main purpose of the Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029 (SA DPD) (appendix 1) was to deliver non-strategic residential and employment sites as set out in the Chichester Local Plan: Key Policies 2014-2029 (CLP) adopted in July 2015 and provide guidance for the development of those sites. Once adopted it would form part of CDC’s Development Plan. The SA DPD applied only to those parishes which either did not have an adopted neighbourhood development plan (NDP) or which had a NDP that had not reached pre-submission stage by April 2017. The SA DPD also (a) reviewed settlement boundaries and, where appropriate, recommended changes thereto and (b) identified (in accordance with the CLP) a local centre for East Wittering. The SA DPD had been submitted to a rigorous process including a number of formal consultations, culminating in an examination by a planning inspector. The SA DPD was pronounced to be sound in the inspector’s report (appendix 2) subject to the inclusion of the main modifications recommended by and more minor modifications agreed with the inspector (appendix 3). The SA DPD related to the CLP and not the emerging Chichester Local Plan Review.

Mrs Flitcroft and Mr Allgrove did not add to Mrs Taylor’s introduction.

The Cabinet proceeded immediately to vote on the recommendation in the report.

Decision

The Cabinet voted unanimously to make the recommendation set out below.

RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL

That the submitted Local Plan Site Allocation Development Plan Document 2014-2029, amended to include all the main modifications recommended by the planning inspector to make the Plan sound, together with other more minor modifications already agreed with the inspector, be adopted and published (including any consequential and other appropriate minor amendments) in accordance with regulation 26 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) Regulations 2012.