Decision Maker: Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee
Decision status: Recommendations Approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Is subject to call in?: Yes
Purpose:
To consider:
- The interim housing
land position at 1 May 2015;
- The risks associated
with progressing the Local Plan with the current shortfall against
the objectively assessed need; and
- The options for the
way forward.
Decision:
That the:
- Additional sites
considered and excluded from the Local Plan during the
January/February/March 2015 cycle of Cabinet meetings be
re-considered (the sites deleted from the Regulation 18 version of
the Plan (7 sites and 1 part site) and the allocation of more of
the additional sites (15) resulting from the 2014 call for
sites). Sites put forward by Ward
Members with community support in Neighbourhood Plans during the
further call for sites process and were borderline rejections from
the SHLAA to also be re-considered.
- Following sites are
not to be re-considered:
·
H1 (25) Tongs Meadow, West Street, Harrietsham
·
H1 (60) Fant Farm, Maidstone
·
H1 (48) Heath Road, Boughton Monchelsea
Reason Key: Policies, Plans, Strategies;
Wards Affected: (All Wards);
Contact: Sarah Lee, Principal Planning Officer (Spatial Policy) Email: sarahanderton@maidstone.gov.uk Email: sarahlee@maidstone.gov.uk.
Report author: Sarah Lee
Publication date: 11/06/2015
Date of decision: 09/06/2015
Decided: 09/06/2015 - Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation Committee
Effective from: 19/06/2015
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