Issue - meetings

To receive a report of the Head of Planning and Regeneration seeking approval to adopt the Refuse Storage for New Residential Properties Supplementary Planning Document.

The Cabinet had before it a * report of the Head of Planning and Regeneration seeking approval to adopt the Refuse Storage for New Residential Properties Supplementary Planning Document (SPD).

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Regeneration outlined the contents of the report explaining that the document provided guidance on the design of waste recycling storage in new residential developments across Mid Devon.  The issue had originally been raised at the Scrutiny Committee and that the SPD complimented existing local planning policy on design of housing (DM14) which required adequate external space for recycling and refuse storage. Effective waste storage was also a component of good design more generally under policy DM2 ‘High Quality Design’. The proposed Local Plan Review Policy DM12 ‘Housing Standards’ would continue to provide the baseline for the more detailed guidance included in the SPD.

Consideration was given to developments that had commenced using the guidance established within the SPD

RESOLVED that the Refuse Storage for New Residential Properties Supplementary Planning Document be adopted.

(Proposed by Cllr R J Chesterton and seconded by Cllr P H D Hare-Scott)

Note: *Report previously circulated; copy attached to the Minutes.