Issue - meetings

Adoption of the Bath World Heritage Site Setting Supplementary Planning Document following amendments arising from the public consultation

Peter Duppa-Miller (Clerk, Combe Hay Parish Council) in an ad hoc statement [a copy of which is attached to the Minutes as Appendix 11 and on the Council's website] urged Cabinet to adopt the SPD.

Councillor Tim Ball in proposing the item, thanked the officers for the hard work undertaken during the consultation.  Now that the consultation period had ended, he asked Cabinet to adopt the policy.

Councillor Cherry Beath felt that the SPD would be very important in the Council’s aim to protect the setting of the city.

Councillor Roger Symonds agreed, and observed that the buffer zone around the city and the tremendous surroundings were worth protecting.

On a motion from Councillor Tim Ball, seconded by Councillor Cherry Beath, it was

RESOLVED (unanimously)

(1) To APPROVE the changes to the Draft City of Bath World Heritage Site Setting Supplementary Planning Document for adoption  as a SPD to policies BH.1 of the Bath and North East Somerset Council Local Plan and B4 of the Core Strategy once it is adopted; and

(2) To DELEGATE authority to the Divisional Director for Planning and Transport Development, in consultation with the Cabinet Member for Homes and Planning, to make minor text changes and minor design changes to the layout, if required, and for the inclusion of the rest of the appendices and changes to the selection of photos to the SPD.