Issue - meetings
The Contribution of Local Agriculture to the Environment and Economy in the context of planning policies
Meeting: 22/11/2012 - Cabinet (Item 63)
PDF 55 KBTo consider the report of the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Environmental Well-Being).
Contact: Mrs J Walker 387049
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Decision:
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.
Minutes:
With the assistance of a report by the Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Environmental Well-Being) (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cabinet were acquainted with the findings of the Panel’s study into how agriculture and its environmental work was reflected in the Council’s policy framework. The Panel had formed the view that the importance of rural areas on agriculture should be reflected to a greater extent in the Council’s Planning Policy Framework.
In considering the information contained in the report, the Cabinet
RESOLVED
(a) that the need for community led growth in rural villages to contribute towards their sustainability be considered within the new Local Plan;
(b) that definition of green field and brown field sites be consistently applied;
(c) that reference to the National Planning Policy Framework’s principles relating to the rural economy and agricultural land be included in the new Local Plan; and
(d) 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.
Meeting: 13/11/2012 - Overview and Scrutiny Panel (Environmental Well-Being) (Item 51)
To receive the final report of the Working Group.
Contact: Dr A Roberts/ Mrs J Walker 388015/387049
Minutes:
Further to Minute No. 12/30, Councillor Mrs M Banerjee introduced the final report by the Working Group (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book). Members were advised that the report’s recommendations had been amended following discussion with the Head of Planning and Housing Strategy.
RESOLVED
that the report of the Working Group be endorsed for submission to the Cabinet.