Agenda item

To receive recommendations from the following Cabinet Working Party meetings:

 

North Walsham Heritage Action Zone Working Party – 9^th December 2020

(Minutes extract attached)

 

RESOLVED to recommend to Cabinet

 

That Norfolk County Council be contracted as a nominated partner to assist in the design and delivery of the North Walsham town centre place making and public realm improvement work.

 

Planning Policy and Built Heritage Working Party – 14^th December 2020

 

(Recommendations attached)

 

Planning Policy and Built Heritage Working Party – 18^th January 2021

 

(Recommendations attached)

NORTH WALSHAM HERITAGE ACTION ZONE WORKING PARTY – 9 TH DECEMBER 2020

 

RESOLVED

 

That Norfolk County Council be contracted as a nominated partner to assist in the design and delivery of the North Walsham town centre place making and public realm improvement work.

 

PLANNING POLICY AND BUILT HERITAGE WORKING PARTY – 14TH DECEMBER 2020

 

ITEM 7: LOCAL PLAN - PROGRESS UPDATE ON SITE SELECTION OPTIONS - DEFERRED SITES

 

RESOLVED

 

That site BLA04/A (land east of Langham Road) is retained as an allocation in the proposed submission Local Plan and the final policy wording is delegated to the Planning Policy Manager.

 

That MUN03/A – land off Cromer Road and Church Lane (reduced to approximately 30 dwellings) is retained as an allocation in the proposed Submission Local Plan, and the final policy wording is delegated to the Planning Policy Manager, to include the need to protect the amenity of adjacent occupiers.

 

ITEM 8: LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT AND LANDSCAPE SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING GUIDANCE

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet:

 

1. Adopts and publishes the revised 2021 Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Sensitivity Assessment as Supplementary Planning Guidance.

2. Revokes the existing 2009 North Norfolk Landscape Character Assessment in line with the legislative requirements.

3. Gives delegated authority to the Head of Planning in relation to the required statutory process.

 

ITEM 9: RECREATION AVOIDANCE MITIGATION STRATEGY

 

RESOLVED

 

1. That Cabinet endorses the approach and delegates responsibility for drafting such an approach, including that of finalising the associated tariff and Policy to be included in the Local Plan to the Planning Manager.

2. That Cabinet endorse Option 1 set out in the report to the Working Party in respect of the collection of the tariff.

 

ITEM 10: LOCAL PLAN DRAFT POLICY APPROACHES TO THE ENVIRONMENT

 

RESOLVED

That Cabinet endorses the revised Policies below and delegates responsibility for drafting such an approach, including that of finalising the associated policies to the Planning Manager:

ENV 1: Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty & The Broads;

ENV 2: Protection & Enhancement of Landscape & Settlement Character;

ENV4: Biodiversity & Geology;

ENV 5: Green Infrastructure & Public Rights of Way;

ENV 6: Trees, Hedgerows & Development;

ENV 9: High Quality Design; ENV 10: Protection of Amenity;

ENV 11: Protecting and Enhancing the Historic Environment

 

ITEM 11: LOCAL PLAN SITE ALLOCATIONS: NORTH WALSHAM

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet:

1. Endorses the identified sites for inclusion in the Local Plan.

2. Delegates the final policy wording to the Planning Policy Manager.

3. Discounts all other sites at this stage.

4. Agrees the green open space designations shown on the site assessment maps.

 

ITEM 12: BROWNFIELD LAND REGISTER UPDATE

 

RESOLVED

 

That the register is published as required by the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017 and that Part 2 of the Register is not undertaken.

 

PLANNING POLICY & BUILT HERITAGE WORKING PARTY – 18 JANUARY 2021

 

LOCAL PLAN DRAFT SETTLEMENT BOUNDARIES FOR SMALL GROWTH VILLAGES:

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet approves the settlement boundaries for the Small Growth Villages shown in Appendix 1 as a basis for Regulation 19 consultation and for inclusion in the Local Plan.

 

That delegated authority is given to the Planning Policy Manager to produce proposed boundaries for Sea Palling, Walcott and Potter Heigham in accordance with the methodology.

 

LOCAL PLAN OPEN LAND AREA DESIGNATIONS – WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet approves the additional Open Land Area Designation for site WEL22 (Wells East Quay) for inclusion in the Local Plan.

NORTH WALSHAM HERITAGE ACTION ZONE WORKING PARTY – 9 TH DECEMBER 2020

 

Cllr R Kershaw introduced the recommendation and informed Members that it sought to assign Norfolk County Council as an identified partner, to assist in the design and delivery of the town centre placemaking and public realm improvement schemes. He added that it would provide significant support for implementing Traffic Regulation Orders, and would be a sensible and prudent step in moving the project forward.

 

The recommendation was seconded by Cllr V Gay.

 

RESOLVED

 

That Norfolk County Council be contracted as a nominated partner to assist in the design and delivery of the North Walsham town centre place making and public realm improvement work.

 

PLANNING POLICY AND BUILT HERITAGE WORKING PARTY – 14TH DECEMBER 2020

 

Cllr J Toye introduced the recommendations and informed Members that they covered two months of PPBH Working Party meetings. He proposed to take the recommendations en bloc. Cllr A Fitch-Tillett seconded the recommendations and stated that she was pleased to see items 8 and 9 on landscape sensitivity and recreation avoidance. She stated that it was the Council’s responsibility as the planning authority to protect areas of outstanding natural beauty, which was congruent to her work on the Norfolk Coastal Partnership. It was stated that the recreation mitigation strategy was also very important, as Cllr A Fitch-Tillett informed Members that no breeding birds were present at the Holkham estate in 2020 due to visitor disturbance, which was a significant concern for all. She added that she was pleased to see that consideration of this issue had been applied as a condition on the recent large Fakenham planning application, and was therefore very pleased to second the recommendations.

 

ITEM 7: LOCAL PLAN - PROGRESS UPDATE ON SITE SELECTION OPTIONS - DEFERRED SITES

 

RESOLVED

 

1.     That site BLA04/A (land east of Langham Road) is retained as an allocation in the proposed submission Local Plan and the final policy wording is delegated to the Planning Policy Manager.

 

2.     That MUN03/A – land off Cromer Road and Church Lane (reduced to approximately 30 dwellings) is retained as an allocation in the proposed Submission Local Plan, and the final policy wording is delegated to the Planning Policy Manager, to include the need to protect the amenity of adjacent occupiers.

 

ITEM 8: LANDSCAPE CHARACTER ASSESSMENT AND LANDSCAPE SENSITIVITY ASSESSMENT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING GUIDANCE

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet:

 

1.     Adopts and publishes the revised 2021 Landscape Character Assessment and Landscape Sensitivity Assessment as Supplementary Planning Guidance.

 

2.     Revokes the existing 2009 North Norfolk Landscape Character Assessment in line with the legislative requirements.

 

3.     Gives delegated authority to the Head of Planning in relation to the required statutory process.

 

ITEM 9: RECREATION AVOIDANCE MITIGATION STRATEGY

 

RESOLVED

 

1.     That Cabinet endorses the approach and delegates responsibility for drafting such an approach, including that of finalising the associated tariff and Policy to be included in the Local Plan to the Planning Manager.

2.     That Cabinet endorse Option 1 set out in the report to the Working Party in respect of the collection of the tariff.

 

ITEM 10: LOCAL PLAN DRAFT POLICY APPROACHES TO THE ENVIRONMENT

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet endorses the revised Policies below and delegates responsibility for drafting such an approach, including that of finalising the associated policies to the Planning Manager:

 

ENV 1: Norfolk Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty & The Broads;

ENV 2: Protection & Enhancement of Landscape & Settlement Character;

ENV4: Biodiversity & Geology;

ENV 5: Green Infrastructure & Public Rights of Way;

ENV 6: Trees, Hedgerows & Development;

ENV 9: High Quality Design; ENV 10: Protection of Amenity;

ENV 11: Protecting and Enhancing the Historic Environment

 

ITEM 11: LOCAL PLAN SITE ALLOCATIONS: NORTH WALSHAM

 

RESOLVED

 

That Cabinet:

 

1.     Endorses the identified sites for inclusion in the Local Plan.

 

2.     Delegates the final policy wording to the Planning Policy Manager.

 

3.     Discounts all other sites at this stage.

 

4.     Agrees the green open space designations shown on the site assessment maps.

 

ITEM 12: BROWNFIELD LAND REGISTER UPDATE

 

RESOLVED

 

1.     That the register is published as required by the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017 and that Part 2 of the Register is not undertaken.

 

PLANNING POLICY & BUILT HERITAGE WORKING PARTY – 18 JANUARY 2021

 

LOCAL PLAN DRAFT SETTLEMENT BOUNDARIES FOR SMALL GROWTH VILLAGES:

 

RESOLVED

 

1.     That Cabinet approves the settlement boundaries for the Small Growth Villages shown in Appendix 1 as a basis for Regulation 19 consultation and for inclusion in the Local Plan.

 

2.     That delegated authority is given to the Planning Policy Manager to produce proposed boundaries for Sea Palling, Walcott and Potter Heigham in accordance with the methodology.

 

LOCAL PLAN OPEN LAND AREA DESIGNATIONS – WELLS-NEXT-THE-SEA

 

RESOLVED

 

1.     That Cabinet approves the additional Open Land Area Designation for site WEL22 (Wells East Quay) for inclusion in the Local Plan.