Agenda and minutes
- Attendance details
- Agenda frontsheet PDF 109 KB
- Agenda reports pack
- Additional layout for Appendix 1A PDF 470 KB
- Public and Member Questions and responses PDF 192 KB
- City of Gloucester Proposed Primary Shopping Area, Primary Frontage and Secondary Frontage PDF 3 MB
- Superseded Development Plan Policies on Adoption of the JCS PDF 252 KB
- Addendum for Council-Primary Frontages PDF 70 KB
- Printed minutes PDF 283 KB
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Contact: Rosalind Reeves, Democratic Services Manager
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Apologies Minutes: Apologies were received from Councillors Coleman, Holliday, Ryder, Williams and Walklett and Councillor Murch and Councillor Colin Hay had advised they would be arriving late. |
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Declarations of Interest Minutes: Councillors Fisher, Harman, Colin Hay (when he arrived at the meeting), Sudbury and Wheeler all declared interests as members of Gloucestershire County Council and indicated that they had been granted dispensations from the Standards Committee to participate and vote in the meeting.
Councillor Baker declared an interest as the chairman of the Cheltenham Football Club who used a training ground in the buffer zone at Swindon Village and announced his intention to leave the meeting at this point.
Councillor Dan Murch declared an interest as a member of Hatherley and the Reddings Cricket Club which is within the JCS boundaries and part of the designated greenbelt area.
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Communications by the Mayor Minutes: The Mayor welcomed all the members of the public in the gallery. |
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Communications by the Leader of the Council Minutes: There were no communications from the Leader. |
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These must be received no later than 12 noon on Wednesday 12 October Minutes:
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These must be received no later than 12 noon on Wednesday 12 October Minutes:
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Gloucester, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Joint Core Strategy- Main Modifications Report PDF 150 KB Report of the Leader Additional documents:
Minutes: The Leader of the Council introduced the report and reminded Members that the Joint Core Strategy (JCS) was the strategic planning document being prepared jointly by Gloucester City, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Borough Councils to provide a framework for meeting the development needs of the area over the plan period from 2011 to 2031. He explained that in June this year the Councils met to note the Interim Report of the Inspector, and the key points for change she identified through it. An overview of her findings was presented to that meeting and the initial response of the Councils to that report agreed. Following this meeting public hearings were held in July and the Inspector’s Note of Recommendations made at the hearing session on 21 July.
The focus of this meeting, and Council meetings at Gloucester City and Tewkesbury Borough Councils, was to consider the proposed main modifications to the June 2014 Pre-Submission JCS which represented the changes the JCS Councils consider make the plan sound and capable of adoption. These modifications would then be made available for public consultation and form part of the emerging plan policies for the purposes of development management. Public consultation would be undertaken for an eight week period expected to begin in November. The Inspector would receive the full responses to this consultation and consider them in January 2017. The Leader explained that the Inspector had already confirmed that further hearings on the main modifications would take place after the public consultation which was expected in February 2017. The three Councils would then meet to formally adopt the Joint Core Strategy in the summer 2017.
The Leader then highlighted the
following changes which were proposed through the main
modifications: · Transport data - the evidence available indicated that the modifications were achievable. The data, produced by Gloucestershire County Council via its contractor Amey, dated from 2008, however would be updated when new data was released in the New Year. The Leader highlighted that for the first time reference had been made to Junction 10 of the M5 as a mitigating factor which was something that all parties agreed was needed for the local area. · Link road to the West of Cheltenham - proper connections were required and further work would be undertaken to focus on the detail of this. · Overall housing requirement of 35 175 dwellings between 2011 and 2031 including a 5% uplift to boost affordable housing delivery and flexibility in housing supply. Whilst officers presented evidence to question the justification of the 5% uplift to help deliver the required number of affordable homes, the Inspector strongly believed that this was based on evidence and national planning policy and guidance. This was therefore considered a matter of soundness and should be included in the proposed modifications. · The North West Cheltenham Strategic Allocation was reduced in capacity to 4,285 dwellings as part of the main modifications to allow for local green space in Swindon Village now shown on the indicative maps. · The Leckhampton Strategic Allocation ... view the full minutes text for item 7. |
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Any other item the Mayor determines as urgent and which requires a decision Minutes: There were no urgent items. |