Issue - meetings

Following the meeting of the Executive on 23 March 2017, Councillor A C L Bowes, Portfolio Holder for Planning Policy, introduced the report which outlined the responses to the public consultation on the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document (SPD), and recommended to Council that the SPD be adopted for the purposes of managing development across the Borough.  It was noted that the report had been considered by the Local Development Framework (LDF) Working Group at its meeting on 6 March 2018.  Following a question regarding older person’s flats, attention was drawn to page 21 of Appendix 2 to the report which set out the recommended parking standards for Use Classes C2 and C3 which included residential institutions and sheltered housing.

Recommended to Council

That  (i)    the various representations to the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document consultation together with the Officers’ response and recommendations, as set out in Appendix 1 to the report, be noted;

(ii)   subject to the proposed modifications, the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document in Appendix 2 to the report be adopted for the purposes of managing development across the Borough;

(iii)  the requirements of the Parking Standards Supplementary Planning Document should apply to all relevant planning decisions on and after the date of adoption, in this case 5 April 2018; and

(iv)  authority be delegated to the Deputy Chief Executive, in consultation with the Portfolio Holder for Planning, to approve any changes to reflect new information before the SPD is adopted.

Reason:   To make sure that the Council has an up to date Parking Standards that complies with national and local planning policy.