Issue - meetings

The government has recently introduced the requirement that local planning authorities prepare a Brownfield Land Register.  This document identifies available, deliverable and developable sites for new housing that exist on previously developed land.  The Council is required to publish this document by 31 December 2017.

The Committee:-

(1)            Agreed to the publication of a Part 1 Brownfield Land Register, and authorised the Head of Place Development to finalise the content of the Register in accordance with the Regulations.

(2)            Agreed that no sites should be included in Part 2 of the Register due to the reasons set out in paragraph 8.1 of the report.

The Committee considered a report regarding the introduction of a Brownfield Land Register that identified available, deliverable and developable sites for new housing that existed on previously developed land.  The Council were required to publish this document by 31 December 2017.

The intended purpose of the register was to promote the redevelopment of previously developed sites that would be suitable for residential development, and was divided into two parts:

·                 Part 1 – All brownfield sites considered by the local authority to be appropriate for residential development.

·                 Part 2 – Sites that the local authority deemed suitable to be granted ‘permission’ in principle for residential development.

The Committee were advised that the inclusion of sites within Part 2 of the register was not mandatory, and the Council’s adopted Core Strategy already directed development towards previously developed land in the built up area (which included brownfield sites), suggesting that any sites included in Part 1 of the register , were in principle suitable for residential development.

It was agreed that a copy of the register would be circulated to Committee members as soon as it was ready for publication.

Having considered the principle of the Brownfield Register, the Committee:-

(1)            Agreed to the publication of a Part 1 Brownfield Land Register, and authorised the Head of Place Development to finalise the content of the Register in accordance with the Regulations.

(2)            Agreed that no sites should be included in Part 2 of the Register due to the reasons set out above.