Agenda item

To consider the adoption of the following reports which will form part of the Cheshire East Local Development Framework.

• Statement of Community Involvement
• Alsager Town Centre Supplementary Planning Document
• Smallwood Village Design Statement Supplementary Planning Document
• Local List of Historic Buildings and its accompanying Supplementary Planning Document

The Committee considered a report 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 complemented 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.

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.