Issue - meetings

Planning and Economic Development Portfolio

To consider report PES/306 of the Head of Economy and Planning.

The Cabinet Member for Planning and Economic Development presented report PES/306 of the Head of Economyand Planning which set out the approach for the adoption of a revised ‘Local List of Planning Requirements’ (Local List) and arrangements for future updates.

The Cabinet were informed that the Local List was how the Council could request further information to be submitted with applications in addition to that nationally required and that the Local List was required to be reviewed every two years.

In considering the report the Cabinet noted that a publicconsultation had occurred on the proposals and account had been taken of the responses received. Also it was confirmed that the ‘Local List’ within the report was distinct from the Council’s list of ‘Locally Listed’ buildings, identified for their special local importance.

RESOLVED

That the Cabinet:

1.            approves the adoption and publication ofthe proposed Local List ofPlanningRequirements(Appendix1 to report PES/306),with effect from22November2018;

2.            delegatesauthorityto theCabinetMemberfor PlanningandEconomicDevelopmentto approvesubsequent updates totheLocal List ofPlanningRequirements tokeep it up todateand compliant with national policy.

Reasons for the Recommendations

Themost recent reviewofthe LocalListofPlanningRequirementswasin 2010 anditisnowoutof date.A revised Local Listisneeded in order to apply local validationrequirements,which have themselveschanged with the adoption ofthe 2015 Local Plan.

Therevised Local List hasbeen subject to a four-weekpublicconsultationand the proposed versiontakesaccountof responses received.Officersconsider thatitrepresentsanappropriate set ofrequirementsfor planningapplicationsinCrawley.

TheTown and Country Planning(Development Management Procedure) (England) Order2015(known as the ‘DevelopmentManagement ProcedureOrder’)providesthat Local Listsmust be reviewed everytwo years in order toremaininforce.The proposed delegationisconsidered appropriate inlightof this.