Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Head of Planning Services detailing the consultation responses received to the draft Urban Design Framework for the Chequers Court area and seeking approval for the adoption of a revised framework as Interim Planning Guidance.

Subject to the inclusion of the words “and through an increase in the quantity and quality of floor space add to the viability and vitality of the Town Centre and” after the word “regenerated” in paragraph 2.5, the revised Urban Design Framework as amended to reflect the content of the Annex to the report was approved as Interim Planning Guidance to the Huntingdonshire Local Plan.

The Cabinet considered a report by the Head of Planning Services (a copy of which is appended in the Minute book) outlining the responses received to consultation on the Chequers Court Urban Design Framework and suggested amendments that had been made as a result, principally relating to the removal of references to a proposed Phase 2, to guidance for traffic and pedestrians’ use of the area, to alternative entrances to the possible multi-storey car park, to improvements to access routes for buses and to comments on the built environment. 

Councillor J D Fell addressed Executive Councillors with regard to views expressed by local residents on the framework document.

Having considered the responses and proposed amendments, it was

RESOLVED

that, subject to the inclusion of the words “and through an increase in the quantity and quality of floor space add to the viability and vitality of the Town Centre and” after the word “regenerated” in paragraph 2.5, the revised Urban Design Framework as amended to reflect the content of the Annex to the report now submitted, be approved as Interim Planning Guidance to the Huntingdonshire Local Plan.