Issue - meetings

Minute 53 refers

RESOLVED – that (A) the Ware Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan be adopted;

(B)      authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Building Control, in consultation with the Executive Member for Development Management and Council Support, to make any further minor and consequential changes to the  document which may be necessary; and

(C)      the responses to the public consultation be noted and the Officer responses and proposed changes to the Ware Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan be supported.

(see also Minute 177)

The Executive Member for Development Management and Council Support submitted a report on the Ware Conservation Area Appraisal following public consultation.  She detailed the outcome of the public consultation in the report now submitted.

The Appraisal identified the special character of the Conservation Area together with the elements that should be retained or enhanced and those which detracted from the identified character.  Once adopted by the Council, the Appraisal would become a ‘material consideration’ in the process of determining planning applications.  It would also link into the development of neighbourhood planning.

Members welcomed the report and thanked Officers for its detail.

In response to a Member’s comment on a recent planning appeal decision, the Head of Planning and Building Control stated that, once approved, an Appeal Inspector could give significant weight to a Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan.

The Executive supported the recommendations as now detailed.

RECOMMENDED – that (A) the Ware Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan be adopted;

(B)      authority be delegated to the Head of Planning and Building Control, in consultation with the Executive Member for Development Management and Council Support, to make any further minor and consequential changes to the  document which may be necessary; and

(C)      the responses to the public consultation be noted and the Officer responses and proposed changes to the Ware Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Plan be supported.