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Interim Policy Statement for Housing Delivery

Meeting: 25/03/2021 - Lewes District Council Cabinet (Item 52)

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Report of Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning

Lead Cabinet member: Councillor Emily O’Brien

Additional documents:

Decision:

To approve the Draft Interim Policy Statement for Housing Delivery, as set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

Minutes:

The Cabinet considered the report of the Deputy Chief Executive and Director of Regeneration and Planning, seeking their approval of the draft Interim Policy Statement for Housing Delivery.

 

Thanks were conveyed to officers, the cross-party Local Plan Steering Group, town and parish councils in the Lewes district and all that had taken part in the consultation exercise.

 

Councillor O’Brien clarified that the Statement would only apply to the Lewes District Council Planning Authority area and would not apply to land within the South Downs National Park, including Lewes Town, where the South Downs National Park Authority was the local planning authority.

 

Policy and Performance Advisory Committee (PPAC), held on 15 March 2021, considered the report and were supportive of the recommendation in full. Councillor Boorman, Vice-Chair of PPAC, was in attendance to present PPAC’s discussion.

 

Resolved (Key decision):

 

To approve the Draft Interim Policy Statement for Housing Delivery, as set out at Appendix 1 to the report.

 

Reason for decision:

 

To help provide a clear and consistent approach to the assessment of planning applications for housing development outside of the adopted planning boundaries.