TOWN Hall chiefs in Warrington look set to adopt additional measures to protect the local environment as part of the borough’s local planning framework.
Members of the borough council’s executive board are being recommended to accept, for consultation purposes, a draft environmental protection supplementary planning document (SPD).
If
accepted, the draft document will go out for six weeks public consultation.
In a report to be presented to the board by executive member for the environment David Keane, it is stressed that the SPD will not place additional burdens on applicants for planning permission or businesses and is actually intended to help applicants and developers through the planning process.
It is also intended to provide detailed local environmental protection lost when national policy was trimmed.
The SPD includes a “toolkit” which sets out when additional information will be needed to support a planning application, guidance as to what such information should contain and guidance on how the council will assess the information.
Contaminated land, air quality, light pollution and noise and vibration will all be covered by the document.
The draft SPD runs to more than 80 pages and forms part of Warrington’s Local Planning Framework – which will shortly replace the former Unitary Development Plan.
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Will they be printing this 80 page document or just circulating it electronically to cut down on the use of paper.
They had little or no regard for the Unitary Development Plan, so how long before this latest scheme intended to help developers through the planning process will go the same way?