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Local Character & Distinctiveness Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document for Consultation

Meeting: 28/01/2021 - Executive (Item 67)

67 Local Character & Distinctiveness Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document for Consultation

Executive Member for Planning Policy and Place Delivery.

Supporting documents:

Decision:

RESOLVED:

 

1.    To approve the revised draft Local Character and Distinctiveness Design Guide for public consultation.

 

2.      That the Head of Planning in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning Policy be authorised to make any necessary minor factual or typographic amendments to the draft revised Supplementary Planning Document prior to consultation.

Minutes:

The Executive Member for Planning Policy and Place Delivery, Councillor Biggs, introduced the report by explaining that officers had updated the Local Character and Distinctiveness Design Guide Supplementary Planning Document to reflect changes in national and local planning policy.

 

The Executive noted that the draft revised Supplementary Planning Document:

·       Updated the policy context and sought to address gaps in current guidance

·       Included appropriate linkages to National Planning Policy Framework, Planning Practice Guidance and National Design Guide and removed references to obsolete documents

·       Included guidance relating to taller buildings in Redhill which had not had information to guide their design

 

Consultation documents would be available on the Council’s website and interested parties would be invited to submit comments in writing or by email. Following consultation, the draft document would be amended to take account of the responses received and any further relevant information. The final document would be brought to the Executive to agree approval and adoption.

 

 

RESOLVED:

 

1.     To approve the revised draft Local Character and Distinctiveness Design Guide for public consultation.

 

2.     That the Head of Planning in consultation with the Executive Member for Planning Policy be authorised to make any necessary minor factual or typographic amendments to the draft revised Supplementary Planning Document prior to consultation.