Issue - meetings

To note and approve changes to Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) as a result of public consultation and the adoption of the Unitary Development Plan (UDP) in July 2006.

Officers presented the report and advised the Committee that it summarised the current position regarding the Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) The report recommended that five SPG be updated as an interim measure until the Council had started on a new framework document to replace the current SPG:

1. SPG1a:    Design Guidance
2. SPG3a:    Design, Dwelling Mix, Floorspace Minima, Conversions,      Extensions and Lifetime Homes
3. SPG8a:    Waste and Recycling
4. SPG10a:  The Negotiation, Management and Monitoring of Planning   Obligations
5. SPG10b:  Affordable Housing

Affordable housing SPG was adopted on an interim basis as the current SPG did not correlate with the main framework and will be the first subjected to a review as part of the new planning framework.  It would be followed by the SPG on conservation to take place in line with the public consultation on Conservation Area Character Appraisals.  The report also brought to the Committee guidance on the Code of Practice on employment and training the second on health.

RESOLVED

That the recommendations as detailed in the report be agreed.