See report (Agenda Item 8) to Cabinet on 1 December 2015
RECOMMENDED BY THE CABINET
(1) That the draft Site Allocation Development Plan Document, as set out in Appendix 1 to the Cabinet Report as amended by the update circulated on 24 November 2015, be approved for consultation for a period of six weeks from 7 January until 18 February 2016.
(2) That authority is delegated to the Head of Planning Services to enable minor editorial and typographical amendments to be made to the document prior to its publication.
Minutes:
In the absence of Mrs Taylor, Mr Dignum (Leader of the Council), seconded by Mr Hayes, moved the recommendations of the Cabinet.
He explained that the Policies in the Chichester District Local Plan, which had been adopted in July 2015, identified strategic development locations and also provided the framework for site specific proposals as set out in the draft Site Allocation Development Plan Document (DPD) which had been considered by the Cabinet on 1 December 2015. The primary purpose of the Site Allocation DPD was to deliver the small scale residential sites and employment sites required by the Local Plan.
The Site Allocation DPD would identify potential sites for development within the city of Chichester and the parishes. Parishes that had neighbourhood plans which had reached pre-submission stage by mid-August 2015 were not included. Parishes that had not reached pre-submission stage by mid-August were included. However, if by the end of March 2016 a neighbourhood plan reached pre-submission stage, then any identified sites, if different within the draft DPD, would be removed.
Only sites with a minimum size of 0.25 hectare or capable of accommodating at least five dwellings had been considered. The methodology for choosing the sites was set out in the Site Allocation Methodology (Background Paper).
If approved, the draft Site Allocation DPD would go out for consultation from 7 January until 18 February 2016. The responses to this consultation would be evaluated and reflected in the Pre-Submission Site Allocation DPD which would then be subject to a further round of consultation for a period of six weeks.
The Site Allocation DPD would then be formally submitted for Examination by an independent planning inspector to consider the soundness of the document in the light of representations arising from the Pre-submission stage.
In addition to assessing potential sites for residential and employment development, the draft DPD reviewed the Settlement Boundaries from the 1999 Chichester Local Plan, with the exception of those Parishes undertaking a neighbourhood plan and parishes which had a strategic development location.
Therefore, throughout the process there were opportunities for the parishes and other parties to comment on the contents of the Site Allocation DPD.
Mr Oakley pointed out that sites CC4, CC8 and CC9 were actually in Oving parish and not Chichester city; he would be interested in the County Council’s comment on the proposed development of site CC6 at Chichester High School for business units, given the projected increase in number of secondary school pupils; he also questioned the implications for other Strategic Development Locations of the increase in numbers on site CC4.
RESOLVED
(1) That the draft Site Allocation Development Plan Document, as set out in Appendix 1 to the Cabinet Report as amended by the update circulated on 24 November 2015, be approved for consultation for a period of six weeks from 7 January until 18 February 2016.
(2) That authority is delegated to the Head of Planning Services to enable minor editorial and typographical amendments to be made to the document prior to its publication.