Issue - meetings

To receive the report of the Cabinet Member for Planning and Development

            RESOLVED

(i)            That the content of the consultation responses submitted to the Council be noted.

(ii)           That the comments of the Policy Development Advisory Group and consequent amendment of the Design Statement be noted.

(iii)          That the Heath Common Design Statement be approved and adopted, as submitted, as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to supplement the Development Plan and to replace the Heath Common Village Design Statement SPG 1999.

(iv)          That the Cabinet Member for Planning and Development be authorised to agree minor editorial changes to the SPD.

REASONS

(i)            To take account of all consultation responses made in relation to the draft Heath Common Design Statement SPD.

(ii)           To enable the amended Heath Common Design Statement SPD, which takes into account the representations submitted, to be adopted as planning guidance to be used as a material consideration in the determination of relevant planning applications.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Development reported that the existing Heath Common Village Design Statement, which had been adopted as Supplementary Planning Guidance by the Council in 1999, had limited planning weight as it referred to out of date planning documents and pre-dated the National Planning Policy Framework.  Residents of Heath Common had therefore updated the Design Statement, in consultation with the Council, with a view to its adoption as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

The draft Heath Common Design Statement SPD was then published for a four week consultation in accordance with the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012.  The document was subsequently amended taking into account the representations submitted.

The Design Statement would provide officers and stakeholders with further information and guidance in relation to policies in the Horsham District Planning Framework and the emerging Storrington, Sullington & Washington Neighbourhood Plan.

The Cabinet Member therefore proposed that the updated Design Statement be adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document.  If adopted, the document would be used by the Council to aid the determination of planning applications.

The Planning and Development Policy Development Advisory Group supported the proposal and had suggested the inclusion of text in the design statement to address its planning status, which had now been added.

Members discussed the process and value of ‘local listing’ for properties of special architectural interest or character which did not meet the criteria for listing by English Heritage.  It was suggested that some expansion of local listing might be an appropriate project for the Year of Culture and the Cabinet Member agreed to investigate the potential for this.

            RESOLVED

(i)            That the content of the consultation responses submitted to the Council be noted.

(ii)           That the comments of the Policy Development Advisory Group and consequent amendment of the Design Statement be noted.

(iii)          That the Heath Common Design Statement be approved and adopted, as submitted, as a Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) to supplement the Development Plan and to replace the Heath Common Village Design Statement SPG 1999.

(iv)          That the Cabinet Member for Planning and Development be authorised to agree minor editorial changes to the SPD.

REASONS

(i)            To take account of all consultation responses made in relation to the draft Heath Common Design Statement SPD.

(ii)           To enable the amended Heath Common Design Statement SPD, which takes into account the representations submitted, to be adopted as planning guidance to be used as a material consideration in the determination of relevant planning applications.