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Issue - decisions
Maidstone Borough Local Plan Public Consultation Draft (Regulation 18)
26/02/2014 - Maidstone Borough Local Plan Public Consultation Draft (Regulation 18)
a)
That the draft Maidstone Borough Local Plan, as
attached at Appendix A to the report of the Head of Planning and
Development, be approved for public consultation (Regulation 18)
subject to:-
i) The deletion of the following
housing sites:-
H1(18) Cross Keys,
Bearsted
H1(19) Fant Farm, Maidstone
H1(51) Cripple Street, Loose
H1(58) Ware Street, Thurnham
ii) That Yalding and
Coxheath be reclassified as larger villages;
iii) That paragraph 14.10
be revised to reflect the top priority for
Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) resources being transport;
iv) That paragraph 1 of SP5 be amended to read “Provided proposals do not harm the character…..”;
v) That under H1(7) paragraph 13, v. be amended to read “widening Gore Court Road to a suitable width to accommodate contra-flow traffic and a footway on the eastern side of the carriageway between White Horse Lane and the access into the north of Sutton Road site” and this be repeated in each of the site allocation policies for the South East sites, as well as the removal of paragraph 11 from H1(7);
vi) That H1(17) be amended to include a landscaping and buffer zone to protect the amenity of residents to the South and to retain the character of the lane itself as a country lane; and
vii) That paragraph 11 of Key
Local Issues (top of Page 9 of the Local Plan) be amended to
read:-
“Ensuring that applications for development adequately
address:-
(a) the impact of climate change;
(b) the issues of flooding and water supply; and
(c) ensure dependable infrastructure is included for the
removal
of sewage and waste
water”
b)
That further transport modelling will be undertaken
in the near future be noted;
c)
That the designation of land at Junction 8 of the
M20 motorway as a strategic location for employment use be
rejected;
d)
That a further call for housing sites and sites for
Gypsy and Traveller pitches, as part of the public consultation on
the Maidstone Borough Local Plan, a review of the currently
rejected housing sites and further consideration of additional
housing in the town centre, be agreed;
e)
That the recommendations set out in the Urgent
Update circulated at the meeting be agreed; and
f) That the responses to the SCRAIP (attached as Appendix A) be agreed.