Issue - meetings

To inform the Committee of the responses obtained from the consultation and to formally adopt the Local Information Requirements.

The Officer presented his report and advised that an initial report had been presented to a previous Planning Committee and that this report built on that following the consultation exercise. 

A five week consultation period concluded on 23 January and resulted in a number of responses received from Committee Members, statutory consultees and members of the public.  The Local Information Requirements (LIRs) had been amended to take account of the comments received.

The LIRs with the new standard application forms would go live at the end of February 2008, the mandatory timescale for implementation was the 6 April 2008.

The Committee suggested that site waste management plans should be included in the LIRs as it was difficult for Waste management to collect refuge. In respect of environmental impact assessments the Committee felt these should have been included within the LIRs by the Government and the cumulative effects taken into consideration.  In response the Officer stated that small applications (extensions) could be overly burdensome to submit a site management plan however, it was possible to request further additional information if it was pertinent to the application.  In relation to impact assessments the Officer explained that in respect of very small developments it was usual to condition that sort of arrangement though it could be considered in the future as part of a broader planning process.

RESOLVED

That the recommendations as outlined in the report be agreed and adopted.