Issue - meetings

To give consideration to a number of documents that will form part of the Cheshire East Local Development Framework

N.B: Appendices 1 – 9 of the report can be viewed on the Councils website as part of this agenda and are available upon request from Democratic Services. 

The committee considered a report of the head of Planning and Policy relating to a number of reports that formed part of the Cheshire East Local Development Framework (LDF), these included:

·        Statement of Community Involvement (SCI) – which set out the Council’s consultation process and procedures that the Council intended to follow.

·        Alsager Town Centre Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) – which complimented policies adopted within the Congleton Local Plan to provide additional guidance in connection with the planning of new development within Alsager Town Centre

·        Smallwood Village Design Statement SPD - the purpose of which was to manage change in buildings and landscape in the parish of Smallwood.

·        Cheshire East Local List of Historic Buildings and its supporting SPD, which had been prepared in response to guidance in (Planning Policy Statement 5 (PPS5) and identified buildings considered to be of local historic or architectural interest. A number of changes had been made to the list following consultation, although it was not anticipated that any further nominations for inclusion would be taken forward. The document would be subject to review every 5 years.

The report had been considered by the Strategic Planning Board and the comments of that committee were set out in section 10 of the report.

RESOLVED –

That it be recommended to Cabinet that the Council adopt the Statement of Community Involvement, Alsager Town Centre SPD, the Smallwood Village Design Statement SPD, the Local List of Historic Buildings and its accompanying SPD subject to the property at 70 Birtles Road Macclesfield, included as a property owned by Cheshire East being deleted from the local list.