Issue - meetings

Consider report by Services Director, Regulatory Services .  (Copy attached.)

5.         DRAFT SUPPLEMENTARY PLANNING GUIDANCE: SUSTAINABLE URBAN DRAINAGE SYSTEMS (SUDS)

There had been circulated copies of a report by the Service Director Regulatory Services which sought approval of the Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance on Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS), which, if approved would become a material consideration in the determination of planning applications.  The aim of the new Supplementary Planning Guidance was to support the effective implementation of Local Development Plan Policies PMD1–Sustainability, IS8 - Flooding and IS9 – Waste Water Treatment Standards and Sustainable Urban Drainage.  It also aimed to give more awareness to interested parties of the various SUDS requirements to be incorporated within planning applications.  It was proposed that the Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance was subject to public consultation for a period of 12 weeks.  Following consultation, it was intended that if substantive comments were received a report would be brought back to the Planning and Building Standards Committee to seek final agreement.  The Members welcomed the report which explained in detail, the purpose of SUDS and gave an example of what a good SUDS looked like.  Members welcomed the report and the Principal Officer, Plans, Research, Environment answered members questions.

DECISION

AGREED to:

a)         Use of the document as a Draft Supplementary Planning Guidance on Sustainable Urban Drainage (Appendix A) to be used as a basis for public consultation.

b)        Delegate authority to the Chief Planning Officer to approve the final document as Supplementary Planning Guidance if there were no substantive comments arising from the public consultation.