Issue - meetings

Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)

The Cabinet considered a report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) that sought approval of the content of the Health Impact Assessment SPD and Coventry Connected SPD (both attached as appendices to the report) and to their adoption with effect from the 9^th January 2019.

Following the adoption of the Coventry Local Plan in December 2017 the Council had been developing a number of Supplementary Planning Documents to provide technical guidance and support to specific policies within the Plan.

The development of SPD’s was subject to statutory process including public consultation. Both SPDs summarised within the report had been subject to two periods of consultation during February/March and August/September 2018. These stages had previously been overseen through the Cabinet Member process. Both SPD’s had been updated to reflect the results of public consultation and were now presented for adoption.

1.  Health Impact Assessments – Technical Guidance SPD

This SPD was intended to provide technical guidance and support to Policy HW1 of the Local Plan and support the delivery of Health Impact Assessments. This SPD had been developed in partnership between the Council’s Planning and Public Health functions and was intended to support ongoing joint working on all matters of health and wellbeing considerations through the Planning process. As a result this would help deliver one of the overall objectives of the Plan which was to help improve the health and wellbeing of Coventry people.

2.  Coventry Connected SPD

This SPD was intended to provide technical guidance and support to the Accessibility policies set out in Chapter 10 of the Local Plan and had been developed in partnership between the Council’s Planning and Highways functions and to support ongoing joint working on all matters of transport considerations through the Planning process.

The SPD was structured to cover each of the Accessibility policies in turn (Policy AC1-AC7). This covered supporting technical detail around matters of:

·  Transport Assessments.

·  Travel Plans (including Green Travel Plans)

·  Highway impacts.

·  Promotion of a walking cycling and public transport (including Rapid Transit and rail improvements).

·  Assessment of freight suitability.

Alongside the SPD the Parking Standards Appendix to the Local Plan had been amended to add greater clarity over types of development and their respective parking requirements.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet approves the content of the Health Impact Assessment SPD and Coventry Connected SPD and agrees their adoption with effect from the 9^th January 2019.