Agenda item

To consider a report on the Cheshire East Local Plan.

Members are reminded to bring their copy of the documentation to the meeting.

A limited number of paper copies of the documents will be available at the meeting for members of the public to refer to, but not to take away.

Copies of the documentation are available for purchase on request. For further details contact the Local Plan Team by telephone number 01270 685893 or by e-mail: localplan@cheshireeast.gov.uk

Consideration was given to the Cheshire East Local Plan.

Members made a number of comments and sought clarification in relation to issues around green gap policies, affordable housing numbers, saved former Borough policies, boundary classification, changes to the scheme of delegation, flexibility on changing site allocation uses, uses on employment sites, the distribution of development in Local Service Centres and Other Settlements and Rural Areas, the role of Supplementary Planning Guidance and where it fits in with the Local Plan, fall back plan if allocated sites remain undeveloped, parking standards and safer routes to schools.

RESOLVED

That Council be recommended to adopt the Local Plan Strategy, as submitted to the Secretary of State on 20th May 2014, subject to the inclusion of:

(i)            the Main Modifications recommended by the Inspector necessary to make the Plan sound (Appendix 1c);

(ii)          the schedule of Additional Modifications (Appendix 2).

Councillor T Fox requested a named vote for this application.

The voting was as follows:-

In Favour                             Against                                   Abstentions

Councillor G Merry              Councillor T Fox                  Councillor J Rhodes

Councillor J Hammond       Councillor M Sewart                        Councillor B Roberts

Councillor S Edgar

Councillor D Hough

Councillor J Macrae

Councillor S Pochin

Councillor G Walton

Councillor M Warren