Issue - meetings

To consider the document and agree it for the purposes of consultation.  

1.       That the Consultation Statement and amended Supplementary Planning Document: Shopfronts, Shutters and Signage Design Guidance for Tewkesbury Borough be APPROVED FOR CONSULTATION.

2.       That, at the end of the consultation period, the amended Supplementary Planning Document be RECOMMENDED TO COUNCIL subject to there being no substantive comments being made during the consultation.

3.       That authority be delegated to the Head of Development Services to make any minor amendments to the draft document as considered appropriate prior to adoption.

76.1          The report of the Planning Policy Manager, circulated at Pages No. 195-214, provided a consultation statement and amended Supplementary Planning Document for consultation and recommended that the amended documents be consulted on for four weeks during January and February. It was further recommended that, providing no substantive comments were received, the amended Supplementary Planning Document be put forward to Council at the end of the consultation period and that authority be delegated to the Head of Development Services to make any necessary minor amendments to the draft document as considered appropriate prior to adoption. 

76.2          The Head of Development Services explained that the Executive Committee had previously approved consultation on the Supplementary Planning Document and that consultation had been undertaken for six weeks from 17 September until Friday 29 October 2021. During the period, seven comments had been received four of which stated they had no comment. In line with the legislation, the Council had to set out a consultation statement which also had to be consulted upon for a minimum of four weeks. The Council had written to over 165 organisations to inform them of the initial consultation and to invite comments and those contacts had been taken from the existing Tewkesbury Borough Plan consultation database as those who had been involved in, or had an interest in, the plan-making process in Tewkesbury; this included all Parish and Town Councils in the Borough, neighbouring local authorities, Gloucestershire County Council and statutory consultees – in addition to that, a notice of consultation had been placed in the local press through the Gloucestershire Echo as well as being advertised on the Borough Council’s website news feed.

76.3          Accordingly, it was