Issue - meetings

Report No: CAB/FH/16/012

·         Site Allocations Preferred Options – (Regulation 18) Consultation Document

Portfolio Holder: James Waters               

Chairman of the Local Plan Working Group: Rona Burt

Lead Officer: Marie Smith

RESOLVED:

That:-

1.           Progress on the Site Allocations Local Plan (SALP) be endorsed.

2.      The Site Allocations Preferred Options document, as set out in Working Papers 1 and 2 to Report No LOP/FH/16/006 and accompanying Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)/Sustainability Appraisal (SA), together with supporting documents, be approved for consultation, subject to the following amendment:

(i)       Newmarket – Site N1(b): Land at Black Bear Lane and Rowley Drive Junction (formerly N/11)

        Paragraph 7.18 and Site (b) of Policy N1: Housing in Newmarket, of the SALP document, be amended to include further references to the retention of a horse racing related use on that site.

3.       The Head of Planning and Growth, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, be authorised to make any minor typographical, factual, spelling and grammatical changes to the document, provided that it does not materially affect the substance or meaning.

(Report No CAB/FH/16/012)

Councillor Rona Burt, Chairman of the Local Plan Working Group, presented this report which set out the recommendations of the Working Group held on 18 February 2016.

On 18 February 2016, the Working Group had considered the following substantive item of business:

(1)     Site Allocations Preferred Options – (Regulation 18) Consultation Document.

Working Paper 1 of Report No LOP/FH/16/006 was the Site Allocations Local Plan Preferred Options document.  This superseded and updated the 2015 consultation document and set out the Council’s preferred sites to 2031 for housing, employment and other uses.

The document asked questions and invited comments from both the public and statutory stakeholders.  The Council was still evidence gathering at this stage and was not making a final decision on sites, but was giving an indication of its preferred strategy.

The Local Plan Working Group had considered the Site Allocations Local Plan in detail and their substantive comments were set out in paragraph 1.17 of Report No CAB/FH/16/012.  The Working Group had recommended that the consultation documents be approved, subject to an amendment to Site N1(b) (Land at Black Bear Lane and Rowley Drive Junction, Newmarket) to include further reference to the retention of a horse racing related use on that site.

The Cabinet were also provided with a copy of the Local Plan Preferred Options Policies Map (which also included the Inset Maps).

With the vote being unanimous, it was

RESOLVED:

That:-

1.           Progress on the Site Allocations Local Plan (SALP) be endorsed.

2.      The Site Allocations Preferred Options document, as set out in Working Papers 1 and 2 to Report No LOP/FH/16/006 and accompanying Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA)/Sustainability Appraisal (SA), together with supporting documents, be approved for consultation, subject to the following amendment:

(i)          Newmarket – Site N1(b): Land at Black Bear Lane and Rowley Drive Junction (formerly N/11)

          Paragraph 7.18 and Site (b) of Policy N1: Housing in Newmarket, of the SALP document, be amended to include further references to the retention of a horse racing related use on that site.

3.       The Head of Planning and Growth, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Planning and Growth, be authorised to make any minor typographical, factual, spelling and grammatical changes to the document, provided that it does not materially affect the substance or meaning.