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Report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place)

The Cabinet considered a report of the Deputy Chief Executive (Place) on the proposed content and adoption of Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD’s) in respect of Air Quality, Hot Food Takeaways and Sustainable Urban Extension Residential Design Guide. The SPD’s were attached as Appendices to the report.

Following the adoption of the Coventry Local Plan in December 2017, the Council had been developing several Supplementary Planning Documents (SPD’s) to provide technical guidance and support to specific policies within the Plan.

The development of SPDs was subject to statutory process including public consultation. The Air Quality and Hot Food Takeaways SPDs summarised within the report were subject to two periods of consultation during August/September 2018 and January/February 2019 and the SUE Residential Guide SPD was subject to two separate periods of consultation, including, August/September 2018 and February/March 2019. These stages, summarised in section 3 of the report, were overseen through the Cabinet Member process. All SPDs had been updated to reflect the results of consultation and were now presented for adoption.

The Air Quality SPD was intended to provide technical guidance and support to Policy EM7 (Air Quality) of the Local Plan. It had been developed in partnership with the Council’s Planning, Environmental Protection and Public Health functions and was intended to support ongoing joint working 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 residents and visitors.

The Hot Food Takeaways SPD was intended to provide technical guidance and support to Policy R6 (Restaurants, Bars and Hot Food Takeaways) of the Local Plan. It had been developed in partnership with the Council’s Public Health team and was intended to support ongoing joint working on all matters of health and wellbeing considerations through the planning process.

The Sustainable Urban Extensions (SUE) Residential Design Guide SPD was intended to provide technical guidance and support to the relevant policies of the Local Plan that related directly to the allocated urban extensions at Keresley and Eastern Green. For the avoidance of doubt, this primarily related to Policies DS4 and H2. The Design Guidance could also be applied to other site allocations within Policy H2 and relevant larger developments, particularly those situated within the wider Arden landscape. An indicative masterplan document to support the Keresley SUE was also appended to this SPD to reflect the fragmented land ownerships within the area and facilitate co-ordinated master planning across a range of planning applications.

RESOLVED that the Cabinet approves the content of the Air Quality SPD, Hot Food Takeaways SPD and the Sustainable Urban Extension Residential Design Guide SPD and agrees their adoption with effect from the 6^th September 2019.