Agenda item

The covering report and Appendix 1 are enclosed with the agenda. Appendices 2 to 9 relating to the individual Supplementary Planning Documents and the responses made to them are enclosed separately for Cabinet members. They can also be viewed as part of the agenda pack on the Council’s website, www.scambs.gov.uk 

Cabinet

AGREED

A)     To adopt the Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) relating to Development Affecting Conservation Areas, Open Spaces in New Development, Public Art, and Trees & Development Sites, as contained in Appendices 2, 4, 6 and 8 and proceed in accordance with Regulations 18 and 19 (for ease of reference, Appendix 1 lists the changes made to the draft SPDs following the consultation process);

B)    That no changes be made to the Sustainability Appraisals for each SPD and these can be published in their final form alongside the SPDs.

Councillor Dr DR Bard, New Communities Portfolio Holder, introduced this report which detailed the results of a public consultation exercise carried out on four Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) and sought approval for these documents to be formally adopted, where they will form part of the Local Development Framework and be used to help determine planning applications.

The Planning Policy Manager explained that the reference to the possible setting up of a Public Art Support Group in paragraph 17 related to the content of the consultation draft Public Art SPD. The recommendation was this Support Group should not be set up, relying instead on the views of the local communities where Public Art projects were being considered. It was noted that the appendices mentioned in paragraph 21 of the report should be 3, 5, 7 and 9 instead of 2 to 5 and the appendices in paragraph 32 a) should be 2, 4, 6 and 8 instead of 6 – 9.

Cabinet noted that guidance on mobile homes within Conservation Areas would be included in the revised version of the Cambridgeshire Design Guide, which would be published later this year.

Cabinet

AGREED

A)     To adopt the Supplementary Planning Documents (SPDs) relating to Development Affecting Conservation Areas, Open Spaces in New Development, Public Art, and Trees & Development Sites, as contained in Appendices 2, 4, 6 and 8 and proceed in accordance with Regulations 18 and 19 (for ease of reference, Appendix 1 lists the changes made to the draft SPDs following the consultation process);

B)    That no changes be made to the Sustainability Appraisals for each SPD and these be published in their final form alongside the SPDs.