Issue - meetings

Minute 281 refers

RESOLVED – that the draft revised Chapter 4 (Green Belt and Rural Area Beyond the Green Belt), as detailed in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ to the report submitted, be agreed as a basis for inclusion in the final draft District Plan, with the content being finalised when the consolidated plan was presented in September 2016.

(see also Minute 353)

Minute 43 refers

The Executive considered and supported the recommendations of the District Planning Executive Panel meeting held on 8 September 2016, on the New Draft Chapter 4 – Green Belt and Rural Area Beyond the Green Belt.

RECOMMENDED – that the draft revised Chapter 4 (Green Belt and Rural Area Beyond the Green Belt), as detailed in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ to the report submitted, be agreedas a basis for inclusion in the final draft District Plan, with the content being finalised when the consolidated plan was presented in September 2016.

(see also Minute 301)

The Panel considered a new draft Chapter 4 (Green Belt and Rural Area beyond the Green Belt) for subsequent incorporation into the final draft District Plan.  Officers detailed a number of proposed changes and advised that the detailed amendments would be submitted to the 15 September 2016 Panel meeting.

In response to Members’ comments and questions, Officers summarized a number of factors that constituted exceptional circumstances that justified the amendment of Green Belt boundaries.  Officers referred in particular to the uplift in housing need, an acute demand for affordable homes and a backlog of unmet housing need.  Members were also reminded that there were insufficient brownfield sites to provide an additional 16,390 homes in the District.

The Panel supported the recommendation as now detailed.

RECOMMENDED – that the draft revised Chapter 4 (Green Belt and Rural Area Beyond the Green Belt), as detailed in Essential Reference Paper ‘B’ to the report submitted, be agreed as a basis for inclusion in the final draft District Plan, with the content being finalised when the consolidated plan was presented in September 2016.