Decision details

South Cambs Local Plan - Consultation responses and consideration on whether to submit for examination

Decision Maker: Council

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: Yes

Is subject to call in?: No

Decision:

Council RESOLVED that:

 

(a)        the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan: Proposed Submission document and Proposed Policies Map be ‘submitted’ for examination in accordance with Regulation 22 of the Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012, together with the sustainability appraisal and associated evidence documents in support of the Plan, with proposed Major Modifications (as contained in Appendix A of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report) and proposed Minor Changes (as contained in Appendix B of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report), subject to a minor amendment to paragraph 2 of Policy HQ/2: Public Art and New Development so that it reads:

 

            “The provision of public art must involve the relevant Parish Council and the local community and could be community-led and have regard to the local circumstances of the site and/or local aspirations.”

 

(b)        the following updated and additional evidence base documents be submitted with the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan (as appended to the Portfolio Holder Meeting report):

 

·         Key Issues and Assessment (Update to the Audit Trail at Annex A of the Sustainability Appraisal Report);

·         Statement of Consultation Update;

·         Duty to Co-operate Statement Update;

·         Great and Little Abington Parish Council Proposals: including consultation leaflet and results of consultation;

·         Graveley Parish Council Proposals: including consultation leaflet; 

·         Sawston Transport Modelling;

·         Development Frameworks evidence paper update;

·         Sustainability Appraisal – update for Parish Council led proposals for The Abingtons;

·         Habitats Regulations Assessment update;

·         Cambourne Retail and Employment Study - Explores retail and employment development in the village and opportunities to support future development;

·         Strategic Spatial Priorities: Addressing the Duty to Co?operate across Cambridgeshire & Peterborough;

·         Services and Facilities Study Update – once finalised;

·         Transport Strategy for Cambridge and South Cambridgeshire.

 

(c)        delegated authority be given to the Director of Planning and New Communities to make further additions to the schedules of changes during the course of the examination (except where changes would be of such significance as to substantially alter the meaning of a policy or allocation) and that the exercise of this delegation be reported back to Planning Policy and Localism Portfolio Holder through the course of the examination process.

 

(d)        the Director of Planning and New Communities is authorised to prepare and submit reports, proofs of evidence, technical papers, statements of common ground and other such documents required in the presentation of the Local Plan through the examination process, reflecting the Council’s agreed position on these matters and to take such other steps as are conducive or incidental to the submission and examination of the local plan.

 

(e)        supplementary changes be made to the Local Plan as contained in Appendix 2 of the report.

 

(f)        the following updated and additional evidence base documents be submitted with the South Cambridgeshire Local Plan:

 

·         Key Issues and Assessment (Update to the Audit Trail at Annex A of the Sustainability Appraisal Report), as set out in Appendix C of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report and addendum to include four missing sites reported orally to the Portfolio Holder Meeting as reflected in Appendix 3 of the report;

·         the Graveley Parish Council Proposals: including the consultation leaflet, as set out in Appendix G of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report, be updated to include consultation results reflected in  Appendix 4 of the report;

·         the Sustainability Appraisal – update for Parish Council led proposals, as set out in Appendix J of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report, be updated to include Graveley Parish Council proposals as reflected in Appendix 5 of the report;

·         the Habitats Regulations Assessment update, as set out in Appendix K of the Portfolio Holder Meeting report, be updated to include Graveley Parish Council proposals, and a supporting letter from Natural England as reflected in Appendix 6 of the report.

 

(g)        delegated authority be given to the Director of Planning and New Communities to make further minor revisions as necessary in preparing the submission documents in consultation with the Planning Policy and Localism Portfolio Holder.

Report author: Keith Miles

Publication date: 13/03/2014

Date of decision: 13/03/2014

Decided at meeting: 13/03/2014 - Council

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