Issue - meetings

Report number DM13 of the Cabinet Member for Growth and Communications.   (Enclosure)

Decision:

The Cabinet approves the draft Rectory Farm Planning Brief (appended to report number DM13) for the purposes of consultation

Considerations/reasons for decision

1.    Report number DM13 of the Cabinet Member for Growth and Communications including the appended draft Rectory Farm Planning Brief and associated masterplans

2.    The adoption of a planning brief provides a tool to ensure that the development of parts of the site do not prejudice the delivery of the remainder of the site and that development is undertaken in a cohesive and comprehensive manner

3.    Rectory Farm forms a phase of the Grantham North West Quadrant development

4.    The drafting of the Supplementary Planning Document (SPD) has been supported by AECOM

5.    The consultation process set out in Appendix 4 of report DM13

6.    The equality analysis attached at Appendix 3 of report number DM13

Other options considered and assessed

·         To not proceed with the preparation of the Supplementary Planning Document

An alternative would be to rely on developers to submit a planning application and hopefully engage in pre-application discussions. The preparation of the SPD is a more positive and proactive approach in that it provides guidance to developers, SKDC officers and the general public on the key issues and impacts to consider when assessing and submitting a planning application for phase 2 of the North West Quadrant

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The Cabinet Member for Growth and Communications presented the recommendations in report number DM13 and explained that this was a draft document for public consultation that would, once it was approved, add detail to the policies set out in the emerging local plan which could be applied when the Council was considering planning applications. The draft plan was intended to provide a tool to ensure cohesive, high quality development across a large site which comprised land across a number of different ownerships.

Cabinet Members spoke about the standards of design and reference was made to a design guide for the district that was in development. Cabinet Members also felt that it was important to learn from experiences of other sites in multiple ownership had been developed across the district. It was noted that once the document had been subject to consultation, the document would be re-presented to Cabinet, together with the results of the consultation, for approval.

The Cabinet approved the recommendation as set out in report DM13.