Agenda, decisions and minutes

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To consider adopting the Cheshire East Borough Design Guide as a Supplementary Planning Document.

1.    That the outcomes of the consultation on the Cheshire East Design Guide, undertaken during April – May 2016, as set out in Appendices A and B of the report, be noted. 

2.    That the comments made by Members on the Strategic Planning Board at its meeting on the 19 April 2017, set out in Appendix C of the report be received.

3.    That  the Cheshire East Design Guide, as updated by Appendices A and C of the report, be approved as a Supplementary Planning Document.

The Cabinet Member for Housing and Planning considered the adoption of the Cheshire East Borough Design Guide as a Supplementary Planning Document.

The Design Guide SPD had been prepared with the assistance of e*SCAPE Urbanists and had been subject to extensive consultation resulting in a formal consultation on the draft version of the document during April – May 2016. The document had also been subject to an ongoing and iterative Sustainability Appraisal and had been informed by the emerging Local Plan Strategy.

Following consultation on the document and consideration of the comments received, proposed changes to the draft Design Guide SPD had been prepared in order to adopt it as an SPD to support the consideration of planning applications for housing in the Borough. The Design Guide had been considered by the Strategic Planning Board which had endorsed the proposed changes and the Guide’s adoption subject to the consideration of the issues raised/recommendations made by the Board as set out in Appendix C to the report.

RESOLVED

1.    That the outcomes of the consultation on the Cheshire East Design Guide, undertaken during April – May 2016, as set out in Appendices A and B of the report, be noted. 

2.    That the comments made by Members on the Strategic Planning Board at its meeting on the 19 April 2017 as set out in Appendix C of the report be received.

3.    That  the Cheshire East Design Guide, as updated by Appendices A and C of the report, be approved as a Supplementary Planning Document.