Decision details

  Agreed that the need for community led growth in rural villages to contribute towards their sustainability be considered within the new Local Plan; requested that definition of green field and brown field sites be constantly applied; agreed to include in the new Local Plan reference to the National Planning Policy Framework’s principles relating to the rural economy and agricultural land and requested that further investigations be undertaken into the Council’s procedure for analysing and dealing with applications where agriculture is a factor and a report on the outcome submitted to the Development Management Panel.

A Working Group was established by the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Environmental Well Being) to undertake a study on the contribution of agriculture to the environment and economy, their report was then submitted to the Cabinet.