Issue - meetings

To receive and consider the reports, Minutes and recommendations of the Committee as follows:

(1)   Cabinet

-       14 January 2016

-       28 January 2016

-       11February 2016

The Leader presented the report of the meeting of the Cabinet held on 14 January.

The Council had before it a questions* submitted by Councillors: Mrs N Woollatt and Mrs J Roach in accordance with Procedure Rule 12.2(1) together with responses from the Cabinet Member for the Environment.

Councillor Mrs N Woollatt asked a supplementary question in accordance with Procedure Rule 12.2(6)(a) regarding whether the parking meters could be replaced to allow the public to overfeed the meter if there was an overlap in parking times.

The Head of Finance suggested that this was possible.

Councillor Mrs J Roach asked a supplementary question in accordance with Procedure Rule 12.2(6)(a) regarding the differences in the public notice and the published schedule and it was felt that the detail should be mirrored in both documents.

The Head of Finance stated that the public notice was a summary of the schedule.  The full schedule was available at the Council offices.

Note:- * Questions and responses circulated at the meeting, copy attached to minutes.

To receive a report of the Head of Planning and Regeneration requesting Members to consider the draft masterplan supplementary planning document for the North West Cullompton urban extension.

The Cabinet had before it a * report of the Head of Planning and Regeneration requesting it to consider the draft Masterplan supplementary planning document for the North West Cullompton urban extension.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Regeneration outlined the contents of the report stating that the Core Strategy adopted in 2007 established a growth strategy which concentrated development within the main settlements of the district including Cullompton. An urban extension on the NW side of Cullompton was established within the Allocations and Infrastructure Development Plan Document This was adopted in January 2010 following extensive public consultation and examination by a Planning Inspector. The urban extension had therefore been established in adopted planning policy for some 16 years with land on this side of Cullompton having been accepted as being an appropriate location to help meet the growth needs of the town. The urban extension was allocated on this basis to provide housing and employment, together with associated infrastructure.

An area of 74.8 ha to the north west of Cullompton was allocated for mixed use development for 1100 dwellings and 40,000 square metres of employment floor space. 28 ha were proposed for strategic green infrastructure. A range of adopted planning policies set out requirements for the planning of the urban extension in terms of development requirements, employment provision, housing including affordable housing and gypsy pitches, transport provision, environmental protection, green infrastructure, community facilities, carbon reduction and air quality, phasing and masterplanning. The latter, required that the Council carry out a major public consultation exercise into the masterplanning of the site before planning applications were made and the Masterplan was adopted as a Supplementary Planning Document.

Masterplanning of this site had taken place over approximately a 2 year period with two stages of public consultation, the first between 12th September and 12th October 2014 and the second between 20th August and 1st October 2015. The Masterplan attached at Appendix 2 was the result of this process and was proposed to be adopted as a supplementary planning document. It set out key principles that planning applications would need to take on board in order to be acceptable, how the development would take place in a comprehensive way to deliver common infrastructure and coordinate phasing.

He explained that the report set out in more detail the key issues considered at an early masterplanning stage:

·         The developable area and quantum of development

·         Access options

·         The location and amount of employment land

·         The location of sports pitches

·         The location of the primary school

·         The location of gypsy and traveller pitches

The masterplanning of this site was last considered by Cabinet in August 2015 prior to the second stage consultation. A total of 120 valid responses were received and a copy of the consultation summary document was attached at Appendix 1. The report set out how the Masterplan had been amended as a result of the consultation responses and the views that had been received from Cullompton Town Council. The Town Council was  ...  view the full minutes text for item 130