Issue - meetings

To consider a report by the Planning Service Manager to which is attached the draft Cambridgeshire Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document.

Adopt the proposed ‘Cambridgeshire Flood and Water’ as a Supplementary Planning Document.

Note the comments from the Consultation Statement and the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitat Regulations Assessment Screening Reports.

Consideration was given to a report by the Head of Development to which was appended the Cambridgeshire Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document (SPD). Copies of the report and the SPD are appended in the Minute Book.

Executive Councillors were informed that the SPD had been in use for 18 months but that adoption would give it additional weight. Other related polices would be developed in due course. Comment was made on the comprehensive and detailed nature of the comments made during the consultation and on the fact that many of the comments had been incorporated into the SPD. Whereupon, it was

RESOLVED

a)  that the Cambridgeshire Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document be adopted, and

b)  that the comments from the Consultation Statement and the Strategic Environmental Assessment and Habitat Regulations Assessment Screening Reports be noted.

The Cambridgeshire Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document is to be presented to the Panel.

With the aid of a report by the Senior Planning Policy Officer (a copy of which is appended in the Minute Book) the Cambridgeshire Flood and Water Supplementary Planning Document was presented to the Panel.

The Panel was informed that the supplementary planning document is a County Council document and that the Council are the last District Council to approve it.

Following a question from a Member, it was clarified that as the County Council carried out a consultation on the document, the Council would not need to carry out their own consultation before the supplementary planning document was adopted.