Issue
Issue - decisions
Urgent Item - Maidstone Borough Local Plan - Publication (Regulation 19)
Issue for
decision
Since the meeting of the Committee on 13
January 2016, officers scrutinised every single development
allocation policy. It was found that
many of the amendments were subject to approved Section 106
agreements, either fully signed and sealed or in a draft negotiated
form following Heads of Terms agreed by way of
a clear resolution of the Planning Committee and therefore
have superseded the applicable site specific policy
criteria. This meant, therefore, that
the decision made on 13 January 2016 had to be amended to include
reference to this change.
Decision made
That, subject to the reclassification of
Coxheath as a Larger Village and the insertion of the Indicative
Housing Trajectory, Council are recommended to approve the
Maidstone Borough Local Plan 2016 (attached as Appendix A of the
report to the Strategic Planning, Sustainability and Transportation
Committee dated 13 January 2016, revised to reflect (i) insertion of the words ‘community
and’ at line 1 of Policy H1 paragraph 2 on page 78, before
the word ‘strategic’; and (ii) any previously agreed
site-specific infrastructure criterion not covered by (i) which were agreed by the Strategic Planning,
Sustainability and Transportation Committee or its decision making
predecessor and, (iii) except where decisions or resolutions of the
Planning Committee and/or the Planning Referrals Committee already
supersede (i) and (ii)) for Publication
(Regulation 19) and Submission to the Secretary of State for
Communities and Local Government (Regulation 22) for examination
under Section 20 of the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act
2004.