Issue - meetings
Approach to Master Planning and Delivery of Strategic Sites
Meeting: 29/03/2017 - Council (Item 662)
Approach to Master Planning and Delivery of Strategic Sites
Minute 628 refers
Additional documents:
Minutes:
RESOLVED – that the approach to Masterplanning set out in the report submitted, be agreed to support the delivery of sites allocated for development in the emerging District Plan.
(see also Minute 655)
Meeting: 21/03/2017 - Executive (Item 628)
Approach to Master Planning and Delivery of Strategic Sites
Minute 77 refers
Additional documents:
Minutes:
RECOMMENDED – that the approach to Masterplanning set out in the report submitted, be agreed to support the delivery of sites allocated for development in the emerging District Plan.
(see also Minute 632)
Meeting: 09/03/2017 - District Planning Executive Panel (Item 77)
77 Approach to Master Planning and Delivery of Strategic Sites 
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Additional documents:
- Masterplanning - ERP A (implications), item 77
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- Webcast for Approach to Master Planning and Delivery of Strategic Sites
Minutes:
The Panel considered a report setting out the background and advantages of adopting a Masterplanning approach to development within East Herts.
The Panel noted that the District Plan included a series of site specific policies which established the principle of development in locations across the District and identified what a planning application was expected to address. For the strategic sites, generally those over 500 homes, the District Plan set out a specific policy requirement that, prior to the submission of any planning application, a Masterplan should be prepared.
The Panel considered the role of Masterplans and supported a process whereby Masterplans were collaboratively prepared and agreed to ensure high quality, well designed, sustainable places which embraced new technologies and construction techniques and had been developed with full community involvement.
The Panel Chairman emphasised the importance of this paper as it demonstrated the Council’s commitment to seeking high quality design and build in future developments. Officers advised that these principles would be applied widely across large and small sites including sites those with affordable housing.
In response to a comment from Councillor T Page on the need for guidance, Members were advised that training would be provided, including tours of sites that would demonstrate good and bad examples.
The Panel supported the recommendation as now detailed.
RECOMMENDED – that the approach to Masterplanning set out in the report submitted, be agreed to support the delivery of sites allocated for development in the emerging District Plan.